[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
LUDWIG VON MISESThe real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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