The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
LUDWIG VON MISESFreedom 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 cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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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 but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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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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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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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 truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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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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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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