Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
LUDWIG VON MISESDepressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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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 worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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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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Free 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.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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