Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
LUDWIG VON MISESHe who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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 Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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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 worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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