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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.

Ludwig von Mises

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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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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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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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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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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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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Citizen Fellow Rule Them Until Want
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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 state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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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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