Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
- Ludwig von Mises
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- The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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- To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can...
- [E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold...
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- There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way...
- Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
- The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance...
- Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the...
- The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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- A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between...
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