All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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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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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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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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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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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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