Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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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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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 essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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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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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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