Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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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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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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