A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
LUDWIG VON MISESThe worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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 free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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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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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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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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