The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
LUDWIG VON MISESThey do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
LUDWIG VON MISESEconomics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
LUDWIG VON MISESThey promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
LUDWIG VON MISESNone can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
LUDWIG VON MISESTo the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
LUDWIG VON MISESIf we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThis is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESDepression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnder capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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