The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
LUDWIG VON MISESIf one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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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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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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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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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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