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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.

Ludwig von Mises

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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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 riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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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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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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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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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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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.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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