Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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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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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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