The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
LUDWIG VON MISESAs 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESSociety has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
LUDWIG VON MISESA free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
LUDWIG VON MISESIf you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
LUDWIG VON MISESIt is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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