The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
LUDWIG VON MISESGovernment cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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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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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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