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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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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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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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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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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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