Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
LUDWIG VON MISESFreedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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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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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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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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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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