The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
LUDWIG VON MISESEconomics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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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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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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 worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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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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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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