Ludwig von Mises

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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities

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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them

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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. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. 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

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Every socialist is a disguised dictator

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The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle