Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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 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 root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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