| Ludwig von Mises | The social system of private property and limited government is the only system that tends to debarbarize all those who have the innate capacity to acquire personal culture. | Liberty and Property | p. 26 | Barbarism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses. | Liberty and Property | p. 9 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Go into the home of the average American family and you will see for whom the wheels of the machines are turning. | Liberty and Property | p. 22 | Consumer Sovereignty |
| Ludwig von Mises | What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy. | Liberty and Property | p. 13 | Consumer Sovereignty |
| Ludwig von Mises | Government is essentially the negation of liberty. | Liberty and Property | p. 19 | Government |
| Ludwig von Mises | Government is not, as some people like to say, a necessary evil; it is not an evil, but a means, the only means available to make peaceful human coexistence possible. But it is the opposite of liberty. It is beating, imprisoning, hanging. Whatever a government does it is ultimately supported by the actions of armed constables. If the government operates a school or a hospital, the funds required are collected by taxes, i.e., by payments exacted from the citizens. | Liberty and Property | p. 19 | Government |
| Ludwig von Mises | Lenins ideal was to build a nations production effort according to the model of the post office. | Liberty and Property | p. 14 | Lenin |
| Ludwig von Mises | Liberty is always freedom from the government. | Liberty and Property | p. 19 | Liberty |
| Ludwig von Mises | In the political field it is always the will of the majority that prevails, and the minorities must yield to it. | Liberty and Property | p. 12 | Majority Rule |
| Ludwig von Mises | In the political sphere, there is no means for an individual or a small group of individuals to disobey the will of the majority. But in the intellectual field private property makes rebellion possible. | Liberty and Property | p. 12 | Majority Rule |
| Ludwig von Mises | The market process is a daily repeated plebiscite, and it ejects inevitably from the ranks of profitable people those who do not employ their property according to the orders given by the public. | Liberty and Property | p. 10 | Market process |
| Ludwig von Mises | The liquidation of all dissenters is the condition that will bring us what the communists call freedom. | Liberty and Property | p. 15 | Robinson, Joan |
| Ludwig von Mises | Society is essentially the mutual exchange of services. | Liberty and Property | pp. 1819 | Society |
| Ludwig von Mises | The Welfare State with its methods of easy money, credit expansion and undisguised inflation continually takes bites out of all claims payable in units of the nations legal tender. | Liberty and Property | p. 25 | Welfare |
| Ludwig von Mises | The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism. | Liberty and Property | p. 25 | Western Civilization |
| Ludwig von Mises | The social system of private property and limited government is the only system that tends to debarbarize all those who have the innate capacity to acquire personal culture. | Liberty and Property | p. 26 | Western Civilization |