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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
— Ludwig Von Mises
What is a loophole? If the law does not punish a definite action or does not tax a definite thing, this is not a loophole. It is simply the law.
— Ludwig Von Mises
the individual is today no longer primarily a citizen, but a party member.
— Ludwig Von Mises
In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Liberty is always freedom from the government.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.
— Ludwig Von Mises
In science, compromise is a betrayal of truth.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Inflationism is that monetary policy that seeks to increase the quantity of money.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money.
— Ludwig Von Mises
In a society of free men the preservation of life and health are ends, not means. They do not enter into any process of accounting means.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.
— Ilana Mercer
The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Human action is purposeful behavior.
— Ludwig Von Mises
A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.
— Ludwig Von Mises
No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Logic and reasoning, which might show the absurdity of such dreams of bliss and revenge, are to be thrust aside.
— Ludwig Von Mises
All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
— Ludwig Von Mises
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away
— Ludwig Von Mises
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
— Ludwig Von Mises
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
The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.
— Ludwig Von Mises
If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Inflation is essentially antidemocratic.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
— Ludwig Von Mises
There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.
— Ludwig Von Mises
What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.
— Ludwig Von Mises
There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.
— Ludwig Von Mises
It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Production is "anarchistic.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
— Ludwig Von Mises
The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
— Ludwig Von Mises
What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.
— Ludwig Von Mises
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Doctrines which can stand the trial of logic and reason can do without persecuting skeptics. This
— Ludwig Von Mises
Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The fact is that, under a capitalistic system, the ultimate bosses are the consumers. The sovereign is not the state, it is the people.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.
— Ludwig Von Mises
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.
— Ludwig Von Mises
It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
— Ludwig Von Mises
At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning? ... Amazed!
— Ludwig Von Mises
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.
— Ludwig Von Mises
No better is the propensity, very popular nowadays, to brand supporters of other ideologies as lunatics. Psychiatrists
— Ludwig Von Mises
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into being.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.
— Ludwig Von Mises
There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.
— Ludwig Von Mises
How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!
— Ludwig Von Mises
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
— Ludwig Von Mises
In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
— Ludwig Von Mises
All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.
— Ludwig Von Mises
In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production
— Ludwig Von Mises
The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The function of money is to facilitate the business of the market by acting as a common medium of exchange.
— Ludwig Von Mises
All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail
— Ludwig Von Mises
This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Peace and not war is the father of all things.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship. The
— Ludwig Von Mises
The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.
— Ludwig Von Mises
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.
— Ludwig Von Mises
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization
— Ludwig Von Mises
The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Socialist society is a society of officials.
— Ludwig Von Mises