30 Quotes by Ludwig von Mises about government
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.
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No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty of the consumers.
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All present-day governments are fanatically committed to an easy money policy.
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If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.
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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, and other useful public works, the capital needed was provided by the savings of individual citizens and borrowed by the government.
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What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.
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