For 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 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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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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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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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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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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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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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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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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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