The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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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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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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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 state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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