They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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 real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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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 liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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 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.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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