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 MISESFreedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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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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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 most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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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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