Liberty is always freedom from the government.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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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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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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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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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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