They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
LUDWIG VON MISESThey 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.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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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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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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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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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