What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
LUDWIG VON MISESPrivate property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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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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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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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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