The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
LUDWIG VON MISESTyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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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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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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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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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