The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
LUDWIG VON MISESDo not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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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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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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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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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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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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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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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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