Richard M. Ebeling

"Let us hope that such oases always exist somewhere to help preserve the spirit of classical liberalism during times of ideological and philosophical crisis." ~ Richard M. Ebeling

"There was an underlying humility in the older classical liberalism that assumed that each person could better find his own way than to presume that political paternalists could make better decisions for them." ~ Richard M. Ebeling

"I ask my students, at the end of such discussions, how free is America, really, today? What is the direction toward which we seem to be continuing to head?" ~ Richard M. Ebeling

"Just as Albert Jay Nock helped to cultivate a new generation of friends of freedom, that is our task in our own time. And together we can make a society of liberty a reality, without always being depressed or despondent about who or how many may be listening." ~ Richard M. Ebeling

"Our fellow Americans need to be reasoned with to better understand that we should not only not want a dictatorship imposed from outside but we should also not want a domestic dictatorship, even when democratically elected, to paternalistically 'get things done.'" ~ Richard M. Ebeling

"Mises was aware of how difficult the task is to defeat collectivism and socialism. In the preface that he wrote for the 1932 second edition of Socialism, Mises said that generations may have to pass for classical liberalism’s victory, and it was for future generations that he had written this book." ~ Richard M. Ebeling

"The transcripts of the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society provide an extremely valuable and useful record for understanding the beginnings of the post–World War II movement to reestablish a meaningful market liberalism." ~ Richard M. Ebeling

"Our task is to do all in our power and ability to revive an understanding of and inspire a desire to preserve, restore, and extend the ideal and practice of the truly free society." ~ Richard M. Ebeling

"What we are suffering from is not a crisis of 'capitalism,' or free markets, or 'neoliberalism.' We are facing the consequences of the interventionist and regulatory state." ~ Richard M. Ebeling

"Ukrainians will have to not only rebuild their country but decide which ideology will be the foundation for their country’s future. The ideal one would be Ludwig von Mises’s proposed ideology of a 'perfect free market economy.'" ~ Richard M. Ebeling