A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
LUDWIG VON MISESEconomic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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 struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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