The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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 market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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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!
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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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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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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