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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

Ludwig von Mises

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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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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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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 entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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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 standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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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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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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