The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
LUDWIG VON MISESDo not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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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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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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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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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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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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