The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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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 riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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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 important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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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 only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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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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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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