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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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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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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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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The 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 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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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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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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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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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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