Ludwig Von Mises, Liberalism Quotes

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.