A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
LUDWIG VON MISESThis is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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!
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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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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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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