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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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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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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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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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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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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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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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