As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
LUDWIG VON MISESAs conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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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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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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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 liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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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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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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