Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
LUDWIG VON MISESIf 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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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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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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