Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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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 causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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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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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 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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