The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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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 root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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