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Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition (1927)
Ludwig von Mises
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| Quote | Source | Page | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| A capitalist world organized on liberal principles knows no separate economic zones. In such a world, the whole of the earths surface forms a single economic territory. | Liberalism | p. 113 | Protectionism |
| A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police. | Liberalism | p. 55 | Tolerance |
| A liberal government is a contradictio in adjecto. Governments must be forced into adopting liberalism by the power of the unanimous opinion of the people; that they could voluntarily become liberal is not to be expected. | Liberalism | p. 68 | Government |
| A return to the Middle Ages is out of the question if one is not prepared to reduce the population to a tenth or a twentieth part of its present number and, even further, to oblige every individual to be satisfied with a modicum so small as to be beyond the imagination of modern man. | Liberalism | p. 86 | Conservatism |
| A return to the Middle Ages is out of the question if one is not prepared to reduce the population to a tenth or a twentieth part of its present number and, even further, to oblige every individual to be satisfied with a modicum so small as to be beyond the imagination of modern man. | Liberalism | p. 86 | Population |
| All modern political parties and all modern party ideologies originated as a reaction on the part of special group interests fighting for a privileged status against liberalism. | Liberalism | p. 160 | Political Parties |
| Any attempt to found a party of special interests on the basis of an equal apportionment of privileges among the majority of the population would be utterly senseless. A privilege accruing to the majority ceases to be such. | Liberalism | p. 168 | Politics |
| As long as nations cling to protective tariffs, migration barriers, compulsory education, interventionism, and etatism, new conflicts capable of breaking out at any time into open warfare will continually arise to plague mankind. | Liberalism | pp. 150-51 | Chauvinism |
| As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest detail. | Liberalism | p. 54 | Freedom |
| As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details. | Liberalism | p. 54 | Drugs |