Ludwig von Mises Quotes

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.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

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.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.