Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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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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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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 root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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 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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