Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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 root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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 champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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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 entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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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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