Ludwig von Mises Quotes on Rights

4 quotes

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

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

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

  4. . . . [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.

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