| The best quote on socialism you'll read this year |
From Mark J. Perry's Carpe Diem: "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..." Read full article... More great quotes: One of the greatest quotes ever about booms and busts... The must read libertarian quote of the month... maybe the year This essay contains an absolutely mind-boggling quote from George W. Bush |
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CARPE DIEM
Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
TUESDAY, MAY 04, 2010
Quote of the Day/Century
"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 a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight!
Against all this frenzy of agitation there is but one weapon available: reason. Just common sense is needed to prevent man from falling prey to illusory fantasies and empty catchwords."
From "Bureaucracy" by Ludwig von Mises (1944)
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