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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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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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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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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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