Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
LUDWIG VON MISESIn a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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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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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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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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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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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