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The 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.

Ludwig von Mises

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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Freedom 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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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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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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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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