They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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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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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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.
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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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