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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.

Ludwig von Mises

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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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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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Capitalism Fanatical Fighting Homage Implicity Liberty Passionately People Zeal
They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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Appearance Artificial Boom Collapse Create Depression Expansion Open Soon Way
The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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