[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
LUDWIG VON MISESHe who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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 root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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