Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
LUDWIG VON MISESA higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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The 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.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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