The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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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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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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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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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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