So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to offer her legal and economic freedom to develop and act in accordance with her inclinations, desires, and economic circumstancesโso far it is nothing more than a branch of the great liberal movement, which advocates peaceful and free evolution.
Ludwig von MisesIt is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process.
Ludwig von MisesIn many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.
Ludwig von MisesNo increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money.
Ludwig von MisesThe advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
Ludwig von MisesGovernment means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.
Ludwig von Mises