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.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnder capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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 mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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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.
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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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