Ludwig von Mises Quotes

Do not deliver yourself up as a slave to any man.

Those who shall have tasted actual freedom I believe can never be slaves, or quasi slaves again.

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

No man may make another free.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

Liberation is not deliverance.

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

Connivance is the relaxation of slavery, not the definition of liberty.

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.