| Ludwig von Mises | Monetary calculation and cost accounting constitute the most important intellectual tool of the capitalist entrepreneur, and it was no one less than Goethe who pronounced the system of double-entry bookkeeping one of the finest inventions of the human mind. | Liberalism | p. 97 | Economic Calculation |
| Ludwig von Mises | There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way. | Liberalism | p. 79 | Capitalism vs. Socialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Every sort of chauvinism is mistaken. | Liberalism | p. 144 | Chauvinism |
| Ludwig von Mises | As long as nations cling to protective tariffs, migration barriers, compulsory education, interventionism and etatism, new conflicts capable of breaking out at any time into open warfare will continually arise to plague mankind. | Liberalism | pp. 150-51 | Chauvinism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore, begins with private property. | Liberalism | p. 63 | Civilization |
| Ludwig von Mises | Modern civilization will not perish unless it does so by its own act of self-destruction. No external enemy can destroy it. | Liberalism | pp. 18889 | Civilization |
| Ludwig von Mises | No chapter of history is steeped further in blood than the history of colonialism. Blood was shed uselessly and senselessly. Flourishing lands were laid waste; whole peoples destroyed and exterminated. All this can in no way be extenuated or justified. | Liberalism | p. 125 | Colonialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | It may be safely taken for granted that up to now the natives have learned only evil ways from the Europeans, and not good ones. This is not the fault of the natives, but rather of their European conquerors, who have taught them nothing but evil. They have brought arms and engines of destruction of all kinds to the colonies; they have sent out their worst and most brutal individuals as officials and officers; at the point of the sword they have set up a colonial rule that in its sanguinary cruelty rivals the despotic system of the Bolsheviks. | Liberalism | p. 126 | Colonialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | A return to the Middle Ages is out of the question if one is not prepared to reduce the population to a tenth or a twentieth part of its present number and, even further, to oblige every individual to be satisfied with a modicum so small as to be beyond the imagination of modern man. | Liberalism | p. 86 | Conservatism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The evil that a man inflicts on his fellow man injures bothnot only the one to whom it is done, but also the one who does it. Nothing corrupts a man so much as being an arm of the law and making men suffer. | Liberalism | p. 58 | Corruption |
| Ludwig von Mises | It is by virtue of the division of labor that man is distinguished from the animals. It is the division of labor that has made feeble man, far inferior to most animals in physical strength, the lord of the earth and the creator of the marvels of technology. | Liberalism | p. 18 | Division of Labor |
| Ludwig von Mises | The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone. | Liberalism | p. 35 | Drugs |
| Ludwig von Mises | As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details. | Liberalism | p. 54 | Drugs |
| Ludwig von Mises | Let no one object that the struggle against morphinism and the struggle against evil literature are two quite different things. The only difference between them is that some of the same people who favor the prohibition of the former will not agree to the prohibition of the latter. | Liberalism | p. 54 | Drugs |
| Ludwig von Mises | It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for work and enjoyment... But this is far from demonstrating that the authorities must interpose to suppress these vices by commercial prohibitions...More harmful still than all these pleasures, many will say, is the reading of evil literature. | Liberalism | p. 53 | Drugs |
| Ludwig von Mises | There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions. | Liberalism | p. 115 | Education |
| Ludwig von Mises | Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace. | Liberalism | p. 114 | Education |
| Ludwig von Mises | Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race. | Liberalism | p. 28 | Equality |
| Ludwig von Mises | If the goal of the Pan-European movement could be achieved, the world would not be in the least the better for it. The struggle of a united European continent against the great world powers outside its territory would be no less ruinous than is the present struggle of the countries of Europe among themselves. | Liberalism | p. 147 | Europe |
| Ludwig von Mises | The only way to counteract tendencies toward protectionism and autarky is to recognize their harmfulness and to appreciate the harmony of the interests of all nations. | Liberalism | pp. 146-47 | Europe |
| Ludwig von Mises | As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest detail. | Liberalism | p. 54 | Freedom |
| Ludwig von Mises | Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and the leaders seek to attach their followers to their own person. Liberalism has nothing to do with all this. It has no party flower and no party color, no party song and no party idols, no symbols and no slogans. It has the substance and the arguments. These must lead it to victory. | Liberalism | p. 193 | Future |
| Ludwig von Mises | History provides an abundance of striking examples to show that, in the long run, even the most ruthless policy of repression does not suffice to maintain a government in power. | Liberalism | p. 45 | Government |
| Ludwig von Mises | A liberal government is a contradictio in adjecto. Governments must be forced into adopting liberalism by the power of the unanimous opinion of the people; that they could voluntarily become liberal is not to be expected. | Liberalism | p. 68 | Government |
| Ludwig von Mises | Politically there is nothing more advantageous for a government than an attack on property rights, for it is always an easy matter to incite the masses against the owners of land and capital. . | Liberalism | p. 69 | Government |
| Ludwig von Mises | In spite of all persecutions, however, the institution of private property has survived. Neither the animosity of all governments, nor the hostile campaign waged against it by writers and moralists and by churches and religions, nor the resentment of the masses...has availed to abolish it. | Liberalism | p. 69 | Government |
| Ludwig von Mises | Men cannot be made happy against their will. | Liberalism | p. 46 | Happiness |
| Ludwig von Mises | In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails. | Liberalism | p. 50 | Ideas |
| Ludwig von Mises | There cannot be the slightest doubt that migration barriers diminish the productivity of human labor. | Liberalism | p. 139 | Immigration |
| Ludwig von Mises | Modern imperialism is distinguished from the expansionist tendencies of the absolute principalities by the fact that its moving spirits are not the members of the ruling dynasty, nor even of the nobility... but the mass of the people, who look upon it as the most appropriate means for the preservation of national independence. | Liberalism | p. 122 | Imperialism |