| Author |
Quotes |
| Louis J Halle | It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave. |
| Ludwig von Mises | The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty. |
| Ludwig von Mises | If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. |
| Ludwig von Mises | The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. |
| Ludwig von Mises | The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. |
| Ludwig von Mises | economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics. |
| Ludwig von Mises | Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions. |
| Ludwig von Mises | One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating. |
| Ludwig von Mises | The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs. |
| Ludwig von Mises | To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of dictatorship. |
| Ludwig von Mises | Against nature and within nature there is no freedom. |
| Ludwig von Mises | The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air. |
| Ludwig von Mises | A nation's policy form an integral whole. Foreign policy and domestic policy are closely linked together; they are but one system; they condition each other. |
| Ludwig von Mises | Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee. |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. |
| Lyndon B Johnson | Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right. |
| Lyndon Johnson | You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. |
| M Grundler | It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Good government is no substitute for self-government. |
| Malcolm Bradbury | I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. |
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