Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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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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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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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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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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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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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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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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