The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
LUDWIG VON MISESEconomic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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.
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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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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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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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