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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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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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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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 so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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