The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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 liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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