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Government
| Quote | Source | Page | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful. | Economic Freedom and Interventionism | p. 62 | Government |
| Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom. | Human Action | p. 283 | Government |
| 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 |
| Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. | Human Action | p. 283; p. 285 | Government |
| History provides an abundance of striking examples to show that, in the long run, even the most ruthless policy of repression does not suffice to maintain a government in power. | Liberalism | p. 45 | Government |
| In spite of all persecutions, however, the institution of private property has survived. Neither the animosity of all governments, nor the hostile campaign waged against it by writers and moralists and by churches and religions, nor the resentment of the masses...has availed to abolish it. | Liberalism | p. 69 | Government |
| It is an illusion to expect that despotism will always side with the good causes. | Theory and History | p. 372 | Government |
| It is in the nature of the men handling the apparatus of compulsion and coercion to overrate its power to work, and to strive at subduing all spheres of human life to its immediate influence. | Omnipotent Government | p. 58 | Government |