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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.

Ludwig von Mises

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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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The 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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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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[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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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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