The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
Ludwig von MisesIt is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.
Ludwig von MisesThe root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Ludwig von MisesThe policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.
Ludwig von MisesThe market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own behalf; but everybodys actions aim at the satisfaction of other peoples needs as well as at the satisfaction of his own. Everybody in acting serves his fellow citizens.
Ludwig von Mises