Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
LUDWIG VON MISESEconomic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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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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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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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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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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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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[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 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.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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