Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
LUDWIG VON MISESA free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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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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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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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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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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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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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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