The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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