Ludwig von Mises: "Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful." - Economic Freedom and Interventionism
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| Ludwig von Mises | The epithet profiteer is the expression of an arbitrary judgment of value. There is no other standard available for the distinction between profiteering and earning fair profits than that provided by the censors personal envy and resentment. | Planning for Freedom | p. 128 | Profiteers |