Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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 issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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