Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying 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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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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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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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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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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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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 liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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