In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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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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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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.
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