The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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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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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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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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