The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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.
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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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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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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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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