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 worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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All 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
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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