The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
LUDWIG VON MISESPrivate 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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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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 entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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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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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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