Ludwig von Mises Economic Quotations

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

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.

Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present.

There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.

What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.

The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.

The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.

Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism

The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.