The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
LUDWIG VON MISESLiberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhat mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
LUDWIG VON MISESFree 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESTo the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
LUDWIG VON MISESAll they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
LUDWIG VON MISESKnow that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
LUDWIG VON MISESGovernment is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
LUDWIG VON MISESDepression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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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