It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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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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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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