Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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