The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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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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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. 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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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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