It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESMany who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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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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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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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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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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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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