Liberalism and the State

06/28/2012 Mises Wire Peter G. Klein

“Liberalism knows no conquests, no annexations; just as it is indifferent towards the state itself, so the problem of the size of the state is unimportant to it. It forces no one against his will into the structure of the state.”

—Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time

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