He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
LUDWIG VON MISESIt is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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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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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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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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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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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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