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Ludwig von Mises Quotes about Liberty

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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty, Agree, Ifs

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.

Ludwig von Mises

Mean, Liberty, Finals

Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Ludwig von Mises

Government, Liberty

The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are. For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.

Ludwig von Mises

People, Entrepreneur, Liberty

Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.6, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

Ludwig von Mises

Government, Liberty, Unemployment

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

Ludwig von Mises

Men, Liberty, Politics

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

Ludwig von Mises

Issues, Government, Liberty

Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.15, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

Ludwig von Mises

Taken, Magic, Liberty

Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

Ludwig von Mises

Men, People, Liberty

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.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalist Economy, Liberty, Libertarian

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Ludwig von Mises

Government, Liberty, Negation

The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave.

Ludwig von Mises

People, Liberty, Libertarian

Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.

Ludwig von Mises

Party, Liberty, Movement

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

Ludwig von Mises

Mean, Suffering, Liberty

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

Ludwig von Mises

Fighting, People, Liberty

Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Ludwig von Mises

Peace, War, Liberty

Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

Ludwig von Mises

Men, Differences, Liberty

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.409, VM eBooks

When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers ballot, held daily in the marketplace.

Ludwig von Mises

Mean, Entrepreneur, Liberty

The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

Ludwig von Mises

Men, Liberty, Quality

Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.1, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

Ludwig von Mises

Freedom, Entrepreneur, Liberty

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.333, Lulu Press, Inc

All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter.

Ludwig von Mises

Views, Liberty, Failing

Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

As the liberal sees it, the task of the state consists solely and exclusively in guaranteeing the protection of life, health, liberty, and private property against violent attacks. Everything that goes beyond this is an evil. A government that, instead of fulfilling its task, sought to go so far as actually to infringe on personal security of life and health, freedom, and property would, of course, be altogether bad.

Ludwig von Mises

Government, Evil, Liberty

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.38, VM eBooks

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.

Ludwig von Mises

Frustration, Law, Liberty

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

Ludwig von Mises

Freedom, Men, Liberty

Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all privileges hurt the interests of the rest of the nation or at least a great part of it.

Ludwig von Mises

Hurt, Liberty, Privilege

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