There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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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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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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