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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThey 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnder capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
LUDWIG VON MISESInflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
LUDWIG VON MISESThere 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnder capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
LUDWIG VON MISESThose who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
LUDWIG VON MISESFor them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
LUDWIG VON MISESDepression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
LUDWIG VON MISESSocialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
LUDWIG VON MISESKnow that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
LUDWIG VON MISESThis is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
LUDWIG VON MISESIf you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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