Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnder capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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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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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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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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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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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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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.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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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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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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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