From The Quotable Mises — surrounding passage

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. 98

“Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.”

Human Action , p. 283 Once the principle is admitted that it is duty of government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments. Human Action , pp. 728–29, p.