Liberty is always freedom from the government.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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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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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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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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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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