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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Ludwig von Mises

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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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The 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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Whoever 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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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 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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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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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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