Ludwig von Mises Quotes.
The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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 men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
Peace and not war is the father of all things.
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
Only one thing can conquer war – that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
Men are fighting… because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
War… is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
