It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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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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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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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 essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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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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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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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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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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