Ludwig von Mises

• The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing & imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion & less freedom.
• The socialists would have never duped the voters if they had openly told them that their ultimate end is to cast them into bondage.
• There is under capitalism 1 way to wealth: to serve the consumers better & cheaper than other people do. -Liberty & Property (p.20)
• Socialism substitutes the sovereignty of a dictator or committee of dictators, for the sovereignty of the consumers. -Liberty & Property (p.25)
• The gold standard did not collapse. The government destroyed it.
• Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
• What the government spends more, the public spends less. Pubic works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by the funds taken away from the citizens.
• What is called a planned economy is no economy at all. It is just a system of groping about in the dark.