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 MISESA free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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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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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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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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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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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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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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