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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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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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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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The 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.
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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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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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