The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
LUDWIG VON MISESFree markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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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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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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This 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.
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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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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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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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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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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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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