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Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
Ludwig von Mises
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Ludwig von Mises
Age: 92 †
Born: 1881
Born: September 29
Died: 1973
Died: October 10
Economist
Philosopher
University Teacher
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Lemberg
Austria
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Mises
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As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants, mines and farms, it is one of the foremost tasks of good government to remove all obstacles that hinder the accumulation and investment of new capital.
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Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
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There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.
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The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer.
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The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.
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There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.
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Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.
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It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.
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