The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
LUDWIG VON MISESInnovators 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 alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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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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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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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.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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