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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThey 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
LUDWIG VON MISESEconomic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
LUDWIG VON MISESFree 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESDo not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESFreedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
LUDWIG VON MISESTaxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
LUDWIG VON MISESHistorical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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