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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

Ludwig von Mises

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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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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 root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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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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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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