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.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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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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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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