He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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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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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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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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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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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.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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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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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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