The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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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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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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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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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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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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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad 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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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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