Ludwig Von Mises quotes

" The history of mankind is the history of ideas. " # Humankind # Ideas # History and Historians

" Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink. " # Inflation # Government # Writers and Writing

" 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. " # Liberty

" The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline. " # Army and Navy # Freedom # Politicians and Politics

" If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. " # Reason # Action # Morality

" The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty. " # Politicians and Politics # Liberty # Police

" As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every individual is simultaneously means and end; if each individual's well-being is simultaneously the condition necessary to the well-being of others, it is evident that the contrast between I and thou, means and end, automatically is overcome. " # Life and Living # Happiness # Science and Scientists

" The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. " # Vacation # Philosophers and Philosophy # Progress

" The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society. " # Freedom # Integrity # Choice

" The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn. ... War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression. ... All nations can coexist peacefully... " # Education # Peace # War