The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
LUDWIG VON MISES[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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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 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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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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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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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