The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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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 alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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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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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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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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