The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
LUDWIG VON MISESEvery government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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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 mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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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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