Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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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 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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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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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 characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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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 fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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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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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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