What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
LUDWIG VON MISESTheir attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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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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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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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 state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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 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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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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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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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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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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