Liberty quotes

http://mises.org/books/liberty_quotes.pdf

Social cooperation

Ludwig von Mises: "What alone enables mankind to advance and distinguishes man from the animals is social cooperation." - Liberalism

Mind over matter

Ludwig von Mises: "What counts is not the data, but the mind that deals with them…. Galileo was certainly not the first to observe the swinging motion of the chandelier in the cathedral at Pisa." - Epistemological Problems of Economics

Paper Wealth

"We are now taught to believe that legerdemain tricks upon paper can produce as solid wealth as hard labor in the earth. It is vain for common sense to urge that nothing can produce but nothing; that it is an idle dream to believe in a philosopher's stone which is to turn everything into gold, and to redeem man from the original sentence of his Maker, 'in the sweat of his brow shall he eat his bread.'" --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816. ME 14:381

Chaos and order

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
~ Henry Adams

Newspapers and news

"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."
~ A. J. Liebling

Social Security

Ludwig von Mises: "By weakening or completely destroying the will to be well and able to work, social insurance creates illness and inability to work; it produces the habit of complaining... it is an institution which tends to encourage disease, not to say accidents, and to intensify considerably the physical and psychic results of accidents and illnesses. As a social institution it makes a people sick bodily and mentally or at least helps to multiply, lengthen, and intensify disease." - Socialism