All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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 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 interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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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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