Liberty is always freedom from the government.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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 worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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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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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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