Mises Daily
Author:
Ludwig von Mises
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what the law and the budget order them to do. Not they but the sovereign is policy-making. Most of the tyrants, despots, and dictators are sincerely convinced citizen’s freedom, of the inherent trend of present-day economic and social policies toward the substitution of government control for private initiative. People lives in subordinate positions, they have lost vigor and initiative. They shun innovations and improvements. They look on every project for reform as a disturbance