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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.

Ludwig von Mises

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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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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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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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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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