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 MISESDepressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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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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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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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 real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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