Liberty is always freedom from the government.
LUDWIG VON MISESHistorical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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