Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
LUDWIG VON MISESIt 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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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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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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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