The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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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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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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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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 truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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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 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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