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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.

Ludwig von Mises

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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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Doe Giving Government Somebody Truth
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Capitalist Consumer Entrepreneur Succeed Supply Technologies
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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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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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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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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