The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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If 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.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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 main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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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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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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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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[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
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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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