The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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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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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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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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 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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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