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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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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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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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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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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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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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