Back to index
Liberty & Property (1958)
Ludwig von Mises
Download:
| Quote | Source | Page | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go into the home of the average American family and you will see for whom the wheels of the machines are turning. | Liberty & Property | p. 22 | Consumer Sovereignty |
| Government is essentially the negation of liberty. | Liberty & Property | p. 19 | Government |
| Government is not, as some people like to say, a necessary evil; it is not an evil, but a means, the only means available to make peaceful human coexistence possible. But it is the opposite of liberty. It is beating, imprisoning, hanging. Whatever a government does it is ultimately supported by the actions of armed constables. If the government operates a school or a hospital, the funds required are collected by taxes, i.e., by payments exacted from the citizens. | Liberty & Property | p. 19 | Government |
| In the political field it is always the will of the majority that prevails, and the minorities must yield to it. | Liberty & Property | p. 12 | Majority Rule |
| In the political sphere, there is no means for an individual or a small group of individuals to disobey the will of the majority. But in the intellectual field private property makes rebellion possible. | Liberty & Property | p. 12 | Majority Rule |
| Lenin's ideal was to build a nations production effort according to the model of the post office. | Liberty & Property | p. 14 | Lenin, Vladimir |
| Liberty is always freedom from the government. | Liberty & Property | p. 19 | Liberty |
| Society is essentially the mutual exchange of services. | Liberty & Property | pp. 18-19 | Society |
| The Welfare State with its methods of easy money, credit expansion and undisguised inflation continually takes bites out of all claims payable in units of the nations legal tender. | Liberty & Property | p. 25 | Welfare |
| The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses. | Liberty & Property | p. 9 | Capitalism |