True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
LUDWIG VON MISESFor 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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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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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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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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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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 essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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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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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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