Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESFreedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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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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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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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 so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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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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[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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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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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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