There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
LUDWIG VON MISESEconomics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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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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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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