Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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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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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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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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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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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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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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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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 market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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