There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
LUDWIG VON MISESHistorical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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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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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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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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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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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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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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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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