It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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The 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.
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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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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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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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