The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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 struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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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 most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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