The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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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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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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[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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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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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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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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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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Freedom 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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