True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
LUDWIG VON MISESCapitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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 whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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