The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
LUDWIG VON MISESIt is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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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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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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