Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
LUDWIG VON MISESHistorical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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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 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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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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