The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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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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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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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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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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