Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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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.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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