Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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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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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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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 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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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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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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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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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