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.
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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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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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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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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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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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