The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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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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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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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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 criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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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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