Ludwig von Mises: "The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it." - Economic Freedom and Interventionism
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| Ludwig von Mises | On the market it is not mankind, the state, or the corporative unit that acts, but individual men and groups of men, and that their valuations and their actions are decisive, not those of abstract collectives. | Austrian Economics: An Anthology | p. 125 | Individualism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Individualism resulted in the fall of autocratic government, the establishment of democracy, the evolution of capitalism, technical improvements, and an unprecedented rise in standards of living. It substituted enlightenment for old superstitions, scientific methods of research for inveterate prejudices. | Omnipotent Government | p. 8 | Individualism |