[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
LUDWIG VON MISESGovernment cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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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 first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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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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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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 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 mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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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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