The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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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 cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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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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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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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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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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 riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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