Mises Daily

In their aggressions against neighbors the Spanish and English established the policies to be applied to alien peoples through conquest or extermination. 

The safety and prosperity of the individual and of the whole depends on the principles of society and civilization, something deeper than any government.

"If recovery is to be maintained and future progress assured, there must be a more or less complete reversal of contemporary tendencies of governmental regulation of enterprise."

Man gives to other men in order to receive from them. Mutuality emerges. Man serves in order to be served.

Roosevelt needed the war and wanted the war, and the war came.

Washington set out to transform a people's army, uniquely suited for a libertarian revolution, into another orthodox and despotically ruled statist force after the familiar European model.

In Human Action, Mises had shown that economic analysis leads directly to laissez faire conclusions. He demonstrated that government intervention entails consequences that are unwanted even from the point of view of the champions of these interventions.

What we really have to combat is all statism, and not just the Communist brand.

Every worldview and every ideology that is not entirely committed to asceticism must recognize that society is the great means to earthly ends.

One popular charge against anarchism is that it "means chaos." This is certainly debatable, and no anarchist ever deliberately wanted to bring about chaos.