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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- — Benjamin Franklin
The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
- — Ludwig von Mises
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- — Mark Twain
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow...
- — Ludwig von Mises
[...] a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles [...] is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty and keep a government free.
- — Benjamin Franklin
War is the health of the state.
- — Randolph Bourne
You can make it illegal, but you can’t make it unpopular.
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
- — Edmund Burke
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
- — Marcus Cicero
The process of social selection that determines each individual's position and income is continuously going on in the market economy. Great fortunes are shrinking and finally melting away completely while other people, born in poverty, ascend to eminent positions and considerable incomes. Where there are no privileges and where governments do not grant protection to vested interests threatened by the superior efficiency of newcomers, those who have acquired wealth in the past are forceed to acquire it every day anew in competition with all other people.
- — Ludwig von Mises
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