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Ludwig von Mises

The question is not whether economic progress makes people happy. Most mothers feel happier if their children survive, and most people feel happier without tuberculosis than with it.

Predrag Rajsic

According to the usual justification for government regulation of externalities,almost everything we do is ripe for regulation. Even worse, regulators never admit their prohibitions prevent an incalculable number of positive externalities.

Ludwig von Mises

The fundamental error of the interventionists is that they ignore the shortage of capital goods.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

It is not the people we elect who are in charge. They are only the human face on the machine. If they don't know this before the election, they quickly discover it after the election.

Ludwig von Mises

People do not save and accumulate capital because there is interest. Interest is neither the impetus to saving nor the reward or the compensation granted for abstaining from immediate consumption. It is the ratio in the mutual valuation of present goods as against future goods.

Joseph T. Salerno

Mises was not one to praise individual economists very often. But he still had his favorites.

Jim Fedako

A central benefit of the marketplace is the ability to choose the products and services that the "experts" tell us are not "the best."

"Herein lies the key to changing society — changing public opinion or people's preferences toward government. And the only way people are likely to change their preferences is through education and persuasion; force is ineffective."

Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Austrian monetary thought can be traced back right to the very founding father of monetary economics, the great Nicholas Oresme, the 14th century Bishop of Lisieux.

Ludwig von Mises

The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguished it from precapitalist methods of production is capitalism's efforts to make goods and services available to everyone — not just the wealthy.