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 MISESIf you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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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 essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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 struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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