What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
LUDWIG VON MISESTrue, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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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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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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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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