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 MISESAll 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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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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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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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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 struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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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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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. 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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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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