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LUDWIG VON MISESA free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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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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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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 alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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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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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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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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