A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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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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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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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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