The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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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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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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 fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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