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"This expansion is the unavoidable consequence of the progressive restriction of the individual citizen's freedom, of the inherent trend of present-day economic and social policies toward the substitution of government control for private initiative."

— von Mises, Ludwig event 1944

From Bureaucracy (p. 44)

Context: From Chapter II, "Bureaucratic Management," of Bureaucracy (1944), p. 44. Mises has just argued that bureaucracy itself is neither good nor bad — what people actually resent is its expansion into ever more of economic life, an expansion he traces directly to government control steadily displacing private initiative.

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