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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.

Ludwig von Mises

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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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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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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[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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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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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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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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