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 MISESThe causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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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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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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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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