The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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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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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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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There 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.
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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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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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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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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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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