Planning for Freedom Quotes

“If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom

“The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom

“The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom

“At any rate, planning in this sense means all-around planning by the government and enforcement of these plans by the police power. Planning in this sense means full government control of business. It is the antithesis of free enterprise, private initiative, private ownership of the means of production, market economy, and the price system. Planning and capitalism are utterly incompatible. Within a system of planning production is conducted according to the government's orders, not according to the plans of capitalists and entrepreneurs eager to profit by best filling the wants of the consumers.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom

“It is easy indeed to display foresight after the event. In retrospect all fools become wise.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom

“Keynes did not teach us how to perform the “miracle . . . of turning a stone into bread,”[4] but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom

“The “Keynesian revolution” took place long before Keynes approved of it and fabricated a pseudo-scientific justification for it. What he really did was to write an apology for the prevailing policies of governments.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom

“the Keynesian miracle fails to materialize; the stones do not turn into bread.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom