The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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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 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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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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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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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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