The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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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 fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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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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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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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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