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Economic control is not merel...

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

Ludwig von Mises 577 quotes

Government is the only instit...

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

Ludwig von Mises 577 quotes

Free markets. What does this ...

Free 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.

Ludwig von Mises 577 quotes

The alcoholic and the drug ad...

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

Ludwig von Mises 577 quotes

Innovators and creative geniu...

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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What workers must learn is th...

What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher.

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The truth is that capitalism ...

The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living in an unprecedented way. Neither economic thinking nor historical experience suggests that any other social system could be as beneficial to the masses as capitalism. The results speak for themselves. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: Si monumentum requires, circumspice.

Ludwig von Mises 577 quotes

The interventionists do not a...

The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are. For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.

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The struggle for freedom is u...

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

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Political ideas that have dom...

Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe.

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Private property creates for ...

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

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The unpopularity of economics...

The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all privileges hurt the interests of the rest of the nation or at least a great part of it.

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No matter how efficient schoo...

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

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The gold standard did not col...

The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.

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It is untrue that some are po...

It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

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Whoever wants peace among nat...

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

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War can really cause no econo...

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

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Whoever wishes peace among pe...

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

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If history could teach us any...

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

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If men do not now succeed in ...

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Ludwig von Mises 577 quotes

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