Mises Institute Quotes

“We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.”
― Jeffrey Tucker, Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo

“The government never minds having more power, and is always prepared to paper over the problems it creates. An economy not bludgeoned by powerful elites is the ideal we should seek, even if it has a name that is wildly unpopular: capitalism”
― Jeffrey Tucker, Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo

“The market economy is delivering miracles by the minute and yet we hardly notice or care; worse, we denounce the realization of this dream of all of history, this coming of heaven on earth and call it decadent and dangerous.”
― Jeffrey Tucker, It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes