From The Quotable Mises — surrounding passage

Liberalism , p. 69 In spite of all persecutions, however, the institution of private property has survived. Neither the animosity of all governments, nor the hostile campaign waged against it by writers and moralists and by churches and religions, nor the resentment of the masses—itself deeply rooted in instinctive envy—has availed to abolish it. Liberalism , p. 69

“Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.”

Economic Freedom and Interventionism , p. 62 There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management. Economic Freedom and Interventionism , p. 63 The main problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty. The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science , p.