The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
LUDWIG VON MISESFreedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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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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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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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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