Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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 liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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 fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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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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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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