Ludwig von Mises

"No one can give you freedom. No one can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."

"Nothing is better than peace."

"Nowhere is there a record of a person who has attained such a degree of greatness that his life does not yield lessons of humility."

"Obedience to laws cannot teach us to be free."

"Only the individual mind can think."

"Ownership is the right to manage and the obligation to preserve."

"Peace is the highest good."

"People are always shocked at how much respect I have for business."

"Permanence is impossible in a changing world."

"Personal freedom is the ultimate goal of humanity."

"Philosophy is useless because it does not help us to make money."

"Planning is the substitution of conscious thought for the forces of the market."

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

"Preventing a robbery, or a murder, or an assault is policing."

"Prices are not determined by the desires and needs of men, but by their actions."

"Production is not the application of labor to land and capital."

"Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be."

"Profit is the payment for efficiency."

"Promotion of health is the duty of the physician."

"Property is the most important foundation of liberty."

"Public welfare is the foundation of all laws."

"Purpose is what gives life a meaning."

"Reason is the only instrument of thinking."

"Regulations imposed on the business of insurance are virtually useless."

"Relaxation is the one thing that is never boring."

"Religion and science are not hostile."

"Responsibility is the price of freedom."

"Restrictions on population growth are a menace to the whole of human happiness."

"Saving is the only way to become rich and free."

"Science cannot tell us what we ought to do."