What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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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 issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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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[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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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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