Ludwig von Mises Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Civilization, Would Be, Economy

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

• The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Existence, Property, Depends

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.73, VM eBooks

• The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Liberty, Libertarian, Economic

  "The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism".

• The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore, begins with private property.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Civilization, Wish

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

• If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary requisite of civilization and material well-being. All civilizations have up to now been based on private property. Only nations committed to the principle of private property have risen above penury and produced science, art, and literature. There is no experience to show that any other social system could provide mankind with any of the achievements of civilization.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Wisdom, Art, Mean

• As the liberal sees it, the task of the state consists solely and exclusively in guaranteeing the protection of life, health, liberty, and private property against violent attacks. Everything that goes beyond this is an evil. A government that, instead of fulfilling its task, sought to go so far as actually to infringe on personal security of life and health, freedom, and property would, of course, be altogether bad.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Evil, Liberty

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.38, VM eBooks

• Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Political, Intellectual, Progress

• Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Limits, Spheres, Individual

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.53, VM eBooks

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