The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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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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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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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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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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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