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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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The 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.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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 criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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