Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhat 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.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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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 riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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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 most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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 entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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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 final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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