Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESLiberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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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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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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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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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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