In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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 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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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