Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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 worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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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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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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