| Ludwig von Mises | The public firm can nowhere maintain itself in free competition with the private firm; it is possible today only where it has a monopoly that excludes competition. Even that alone is evidence of its lesser economic productivity. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 186 | Bureaucracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | In regard to economic policy, socialism and communism are identical. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 178n | Communism |
| Ludwig von Mises | In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the soldier more or less abundantly for the loss of time that he suffers from his military-service obligation. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 165 | Conscription |
| Ludwig von Mises | Every conservative policy, however, is fated from the start to fail; after all, its essence is to stop something unstoppable, to resist a development that cannot be impeded. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 119 | Conservatism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Every reactionary lacks intellectual independence. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 119 | Conservatism |
| Ludwig von Mises | After all, culture is wealth. Without well-being, without wealth, there never has been culture. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 74 | Culture |
| Ludwig von Mises | They strive for welfare and for wealth not because they see the highest value in them but because they know that all higher and inner culture presupposes outward welfare. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 215 | Culture |
| Ludwig von Mises | People can today seek salvation only in democracy, in the right of self-determination both of individuals and of nations. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 131 | Democracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | Economic history is the development of the division of labor. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 134 | Division of Labor |
| Ludwig von Mises | The only true national autonomy is the freedom of the individual against the state and society. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 96 | Freedom |
| Ludwig von Mises | It is characteristic of very great persons to move forward to highest accomplishment out of an inner drive; others require an external impulse to overcome deep-rooted inertia and to develop their own selves. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 213 | Genius |
| Ludwig von Mises | History should teach us to recognize causes and to understand driving forces; and when we understand everything, we will forgive everything. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 2 | History |
| Ludwig von Mises | Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers seeking out the guilty should we face the past. We seek truth, not guilt; we want to know how things came about to understand them, not to issue condemnations. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 1 | History |
| Ludwig von Mises | It is not the task of history to gratify the need of the masses for heroes and scapegoats. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 1 | History |
| Ludwig von Mises | It is not the task of history to project the hatred and disagreements of the present back into the past and to draw from battles fought long ago weapons for the disputes of ones own time. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 2 | History |
| Ludwig von Mises | Neither fame nor honor nor wealth nor happiness was to be found on this path. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 75 | Imperialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 75 | Imperialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The imperialistic people's state scarcely differs from the old principle state in its interpretation of sovereignty and its boundaries. Like the latter, it knows no other limits to the expansion of its rule than those drawn by the opposition of an equally strong power. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 79 | Imperialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Nothing is more stupid than efforts to justify today's imperialism, with all of its brutalities, by reference to atrocities of generations long since gone. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 76 | Imperialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | For fully developed imperialism, the individual no longer has value. He is valuable to it only as a member of the whole, as a soldier of an army. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 78 | Imperialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Marxian socialism, as a fundamentally revolutionary movement, is inwardly inclined toward imperialism. No one will dispute that, least of all the Marxists themselves, who straightforwardly proclaim the cult of revolution. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 206 | Imperialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | One can say without exaggeration that inflation is an indispensable intellectual means of militarism. Without it, the repercussions of war on welfare would become obvious much more quickly and penetratingly; war-weariness would set in much earlier. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 163 | Inflation |
| Ludwig von Mises | All attempts to create a substantive international law through whose application disputes among nations could be decided have miscarried. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 90 | International Law |
| Ludwig von Mises | The world community of labor is based on the reciprocal advantage of all participants. Whoever wants to maintain and extend it must renounce all resentment in advance. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 220 | International Trade |
| Ludwig von Mises | It is a matter of indifference whether one produces foodstuffs and raw materials at home oneself or, if it seems more economic, obtains them from abroad in exchange for other products that one has produced. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 84 | International Trade |
| Ludwig von Mises | Community of language binds and difference of language separates persons and peoples. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 13 | Language |
| Ludwig von Mises | Whoever wants to speak with his fellow men and to understand what they say must use their language. Everyone must therefore strive to understand and speak the language of his environment. For that reason individuals and minorities adopt the language of the majority. | Nation, State, and Economy | pp. 2728 | Language |
| Ludwig von Mises | Liberalism, which demands full freedom of the economy, seeks to dissolve the difficulties that the diversity of political arrangements pits against the development of trade by separating the economy from the state. It strives for the greatest possible unification of law, in the last analysis for world unity of law. But it does not believe that to reach this goal, great empires or even a world empire must be created. | Nation, State, and Economy | pp. 3738 | Law |
| Ludwig von Mises | What counts is not the letter of the law but the substantive content of the legal norm. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 173 | Law |
| Ludwig von Mises | Not through war and victory but only through work can a nation create the preconditions for the well-being of its members. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 87 | Material Well-Being |