| Ludwig von Mises | It was not the first time in French history that the nationalists put their anti-Semitism above their French patriotism. In the Dreyfus Affair they fought vigorously in order to let a treacherous officer quietly evade punishment while an innocent Jew languished in prison. | Omnipotent Government | p. 190 | Anti-Semitism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The Nazis have an ally in every town or village where there is a man eager to get rid of a Jewish competitor. The secret weapon of Hitler is the anti-Jewish inclinations of many millions of shopkeepers and grocers, of doctors and lawyers, professors and writers. | Omnipotent Government | p. 192 | Anti-Semitism |
| Ludwig von Mises | There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them. | Omnipotent Government | p. 52 | Arts |
| Ludwig von Mises | [In a liberal world] it makes no difference where the frontiers of a country are drawn... In such a world the people of every village or district could decide by plebiscite to which state they want to belong. | Omnipotent Government | p. 92 | Borders |
| Ludwig von Mises | Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures. | Omnipotent Government | p. x | Bureaucracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression. | Omnipotent Government | p. 251 | Business Cycles |
| Ludwig von Mises | Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio sets, refrigerators, moving and talking pictures, and variety of less spectacular but no less useful innovations. These new products were certainly not an achievement of offices and bureaucrats. | Omnipotent Government | pp. ixx | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too. | Omnipotent Government | p. 53 | Capitalism vs. Socialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Conceit and overvaluation of ones own nation are quite common. But it would be wrong to assume that hatred and contempt of foreigners are natural and innate qualities. Even soldiers fighting to kill their enemies do not hate the individual foe, if they happen to meet him apart from the battle. | Omnipotent Government | p. 124 | Chauvinism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Chauvinism has not begotten nationalism. Its chief function in the scheme of nationalist policies is to adorn the shows and festivals of nationalism. People overflow with joy and pride when the official speakers hail them as the elite of mankind and praise the immortal deeds of their ancestors and the invincibility of their armed forces. But when the words fade away and the celebration reaches its end, people return home and go to bed. They do not mount the battlehorse. | Omnipotent Government | p. 125 | Chauvinism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Virtually all the Christian churches and sects have espoused the principles of socialism and interventionism. | Omnipotent Government | p. 120 | Christianity |
| Ludwig von Mises | Protestantism is no more a safeguard of freedom than Catholicism. The ideal of liberalism is the complete separation of church and state, and tolerance--without any regard to differences among the churches. | Omnipotent Government | p. 30 | Christianity |
| Ludwig von Mises | Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people force him to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior. | Omnipotent Government | p. 241 | Civilization |
| Ludwig von Mises | No proletarian contributed anything to the construction of antiliberal teachings. At the root of the genealogical tree of modern socialism we meet the name of the depraved scion of one of the most eminent aristocratic families of royal France. | Omnipotent Government | p. 118 | Classes |
| Ludwig von Mises | It is not true that the dangers to the maintenance of peace, democracy, freedom, and capitalism are a result of a revolt of the masses. They are an achievement of scholars and intellectuals, of sons of the well-to-do, of writers and artists pampered by the best society. | Omnipotent Government | p. 119 | Classes |
| Ludwig von Mises | The elite should be supreme by virtue of persuasion, not by the assistance of firing squads. | Omnipotent Government | p. 120 | Classes |
| Ludwig von Mises | Freedom, democracy, peace, and private property are deemed good because they are the best means for promoting human happiness and welfare. Liberalism wants to secure to man a life free from fear and want. That is all. | Omnipotent Government | p. 51 | Classical Liberalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The main excellence of the liberal scheme of social, economic, and political organization is precisely this — that it makes the peaceful cooperation of nations possible. | Omnipotent Government | p. 91 | Classical Liberalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Imagine a world order in which liberalism is supreme . . . there is private property in the means of production. The working of the market is not hampered by government interference. There are no trade barriers; men can live and work where they want. | Omnipotent Government | pp. 91-92 | Classical Liberalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The marvelous achievements of the British administration in India were overshadowed by the vain arrogance and stupid race pride of the white man. | Omnipotent Government | p. 98 | Colonialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The initiative for the great colonial projects came not from finance and business but from the governments. | Omnipotent Government | p. 99 | Colonialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Corruption is an evil inherent in every government not controlled by a watchful public opinion. | Omnipotent Government | p. 206 | Corruption |
| Ludwig von Mises | Democracy too is not divine. | Omnipotent Government | p. 47 | Democracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | Majorities are no less exposed to error and frustration than kings and dictators. That a fact is deemed true by the majority does not prove its truth. | Omnipotent Government | p. 47 | Democracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will. | Omnipotent Government | p. 242 | Dictatorship |
| Ludwig von Mises | Now the greatest accomplishment of reason is the discovery of the advantages of social cooperation, and its corollary, the division of labor. | Omnipotent Government | p. 121 | Division of Labor |
| Ludwig von Mises | Western Europe developed the system of obligatory public education. It came to Eastern Europe as an achievement of Western civilization. But in the linguistically mixed territories it turned into a dreadful weapon in the hands of governments. | Omnipotent Government | pp. 82-83 | Education |
| Ludwig von Mises | Seen from the formalistic viewpoint of constitutional law, the United States and the Swiss Confederation may doubtless still be classified as federations, but in actual fact they are moving more and more toward centralization. | Omnipotent Government | p. 268 | Federalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The enormous transfer of capital from Western Europe to the rest of the world was one of the outstanding events of the age of capitalism. It has developed natural resources in the remotest areas. It has raised the standard of living of peoples who from time immemorial had not achieved any improvement in their material conditions. | Omnipotent Government | p. 102 | Foreign Capital |
| Ludwig von Mises | Free trade begins at home. | Omnipotent Government | p. 237 | Free Trade |