Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
LUDWIG VON MISESIn a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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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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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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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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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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Those 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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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 main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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