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.
LUDWIG VON MISESGovernment is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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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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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 liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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 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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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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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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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