A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
LUDWIG VON MISESUnemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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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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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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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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