Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhat mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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