The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
LUDWIG VON MISESTyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. 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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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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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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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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