There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
LUDWIG VON MISESThose who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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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 real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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