None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
LUDWIG VON MISESTyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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The 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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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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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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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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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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