Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
LUDWIG VON MISESThose who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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.
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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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