The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhat mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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.
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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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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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