He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
LUDWIG VON MISESKnow that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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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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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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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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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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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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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 final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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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 mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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