The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
LUDWIG VON MISESFree markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
LUDWIG VON MISESIf we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
LUDWIG VON MISESMany who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
LUDWIG VON MISESCapitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
LUDWIG VON MISESTaxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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.
LUDWIG VON MISESGerman Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
LUDWIG VON MISESTrue, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
LUDWIG VON MISESAll people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
LUDWIG VON MISESThe essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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