Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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 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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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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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