The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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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 advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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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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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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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 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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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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