There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
LUDWIG VON MISESHe who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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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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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.
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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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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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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.
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