The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
LUDWIG VON MISESIf 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 final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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They 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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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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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.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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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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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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