The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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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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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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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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