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LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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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 causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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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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[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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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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