The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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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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