The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
LUDWIG VON MISESThose who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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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.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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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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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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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 so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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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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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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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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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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