Ludwig von Mises Quotations

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

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.

In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.

The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.