It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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