He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
LUDWIG VON MISESDepressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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 essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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 issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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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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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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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 greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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