The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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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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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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 truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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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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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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