"The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and ...
Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
More Ludwig von Mises quotes
"A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compuls...
"The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
"If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty of the consumer...
"Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic acti...
"Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and the leaders seek to attach their followers to their...
"The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile...
"It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.
"What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologies. Economic prosperity is not so much a material p...
"The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power.
"The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a higher value to the good he receives than to that...
"There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market society. The card player wins money by outsmartin...
"The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.
"Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
"He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.