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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Ludwig von Mises

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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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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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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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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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