Ludwig von Mises Quotes

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

Free prices are the price of freedom.

There has been no country with a democratic political sphere, past or present, whose economy has not been dominated by private ownership and market coordination.

We want a market economy without any adjectives. Any compromises with that will only fuzzy up the problems we have.

The free market economy provides an unparalleled example of a continuing healthy circulation of elites. In this dynamic economy, failure to keep up with competitors, failure to satisfy the demands of consumers in the best possible way, will topple elites quickly and establish new ones who do the job better.

What is really at stake here is the survival of the kind of economy under which this country has grown great, the free-enterprise system

The key to democracy has been the free market economy.

You have to have free enterprise for the many.

Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.

We're supposed to live under capitalism, and capitalism is supposed to be competitive so you would expect that capitalists and entrepreneurs would like competition. Well, it turns out that capitalists do everything they can to avoid competition.

The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.

The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve. [...] Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as an international system determining the economic fate of most of mankind.

Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.

Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.

Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all members of society. Let free enterprise fight back now, not for itself, but for all those who believe in freedom.

A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies.

In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought.

The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.

I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.

...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.