The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
LUDWIG VON MISESInnovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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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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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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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 final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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