Ludwig von Mises Quotes

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

My freedom is more important than your good idea.

I firmly believe in individual liberty more than anything else. And that you have to live the life you want for yourself.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom is control in your own life.

You have to make your own decisions. That's what the freedom in America is all about.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

I am a rank individualist.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

For why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience?

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.