Liberty is always freedom from the government.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhat mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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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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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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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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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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