The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power.
Ludwig von MisesSociety is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
Ludwig von MisesThe elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would create poverty for all.
Ludwig von MisesThere can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.
Ludwig von MisesWhile under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted.
Ludwig von Mises