5 Ludwig von Mises Quotes on Freedom

Ludwig von Mises quotes on freedom

2. The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

5. The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.

9. This, then, is freedom in the external life of man - that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

10. . . . [A]s soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individual's mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest detail.

17. All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.