The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
LUDWIG VON MISESAs 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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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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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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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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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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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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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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