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.
LUDWIG VON MISESMany who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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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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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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