Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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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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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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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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