The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
LUDWIG VON MISESLiberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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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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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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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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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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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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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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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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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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 criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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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