The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
LUDWIG VON MISESThey can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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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 first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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