Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
LUDWIG VON MISESKnow that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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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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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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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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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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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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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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