Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
LUDWIG VON MISESGovernment is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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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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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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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.
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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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