Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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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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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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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