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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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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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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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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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 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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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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