If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
LUDWIG VON MISESAll 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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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