Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.
Ludwig von MisesEach epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
Ludwig von MisesCredit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.
Ludwig von MisesThe masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.
Ludwig von MisesGovernment force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be ineffective, but when summed from the force of all the area's citizens indeed composes a power no citizen or group can withstand. That force is then rightly but justly to be used against those who violate the foundation pillars of freedom.
Ludwig von Mises