Ludwig von Mises: "Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends." - The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
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| 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 | The closed-door policy is one of the root causes of our wars. | Omnipotent Government | p. 263 | Immigration |
| Ludwig von Mises | Immigrants soon find their place in urban life, they soon adopt, externally, town manners and opinions, but for a long time they remain foreign to civic thought. One cannot make a social philosophy one's own as easily as a new costume. | Socialism | p. 38 | Immigration |