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.
LUDWIG VON MISESTrue, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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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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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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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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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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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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