The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
LUDWIG VON MISESGovernment cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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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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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 Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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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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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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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 flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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