Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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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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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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