The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.
Ludwig von MisesEvery restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.
Ludwig von MisesNothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.
Ludwig von MisesThe first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.
Ludwig von MisesWhat is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors, and the entrepreneurs, operating in a market economy as far as it is not sabotaged by the endeavors of the nonprogressive majority of the routinists and the public policies supported by them.
Ludwig von Mises