There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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The 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.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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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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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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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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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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