The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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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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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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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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