It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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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 gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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