The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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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 root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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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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.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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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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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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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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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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 Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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