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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Ludwig von Mises

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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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Course Disaster Liberty Mischief Often Peace Source State War
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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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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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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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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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 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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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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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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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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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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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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