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.
LUDWIG VON MISESEconomics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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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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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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 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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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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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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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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