The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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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 mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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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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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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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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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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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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