Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
LUDWIG VON MISES[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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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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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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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.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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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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