A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
LUDWIG VON MISESThe Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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 interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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 so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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