The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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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 philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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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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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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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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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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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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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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