It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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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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 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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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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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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[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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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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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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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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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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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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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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