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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESGovernment spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
LUDWIG VON MISESA higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
LUDWIG VON MISESGovernment is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
LUDWIG VON MISESInnovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
LUDWIG VON MISESEvery socialist is a disguised dictator.
LUDWIG VON MISESIn a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
LUDWIG VON MISESEconomics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnder capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
LUDWIG VON MISESAs conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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