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- Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
- Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
- The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome…
- [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
- Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
- The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day…
- In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production
- If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink…
- The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which…
- How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!
- It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and…
- Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
- The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to…
- As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants, mines…
- It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely because the authorities…
- It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument…
- Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.
- There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the…
- Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described…
- There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.
- Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called…
- If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.
- History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads, railroads,…
- True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit…
- The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion,…
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- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
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