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As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

Ludwig von Mises
Liberty, Economics, Fallacy

No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.

Ludwig von Mises
Liberty, Tasks, Sowing
Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

Ludwig von Mises
Liberty, Libertarian, Economic
"The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism".

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

Ludwig von Mises
Independent, Men, Liberty
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.168, VM eBooks

As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.

Ludwig von Mises
Rights, Political, Liberty
Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

Freedom and liberty always mean freedom from police interference.

Ludwig von Mises
Mean, Police, Liberty
Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.51, Ludwig von Mises Institute

It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments.

Ludwig von Mises
Government, Ideas, Liberty
Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.414, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

Ludwig von Mises
War, Liberty, Socialism

Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.

Ludwig von Mises
Government, Liberty, Economic
Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.

Ludwig von Mises
Passion, Mind, Liberty
"Liberalism in Caricature". Review of "The Anti-Capitalist Mentality", The Economist Magazine, April 13, 1957.

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

Ludwig von Mises
Ideas, Common Sense, Liberty
Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.83, Ludwig von Mises Institute

He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

Ludwig von Mises
Fall, Liberty, May
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.241, Lulu Press, Inc

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

Ludwig von Mises
Liberty, Kind, Economy
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.350, Lulu Press, Inc

The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome of the operation of the free market. They are on the contrary the result of well-intentioned but ill-advised government interference with the market.

Ludwig von Mises
Government, People, Liberty
Ludwig von Mises (2015). “Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism”, p.27, Ludwig von Mises Institute

This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels. It permeates no less the contributions of contemporary pseudo-economics.

Ludwig von Mises
Writing, Issues, Liberty

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

Ludwig von Mises
Philosophy, Liberty, Cooperation
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.188, Lulu Press, Inc

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Ludwig von Mises
Liberty, Wrens, Needs

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