Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
LUDWIG VON MISESIn a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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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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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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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.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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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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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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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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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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