A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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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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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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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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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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