In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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 worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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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 root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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 essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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 mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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