They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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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 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.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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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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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 state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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