What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
LUDWIG VON MISESEvery socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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All 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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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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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 worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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 causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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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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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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