Liberty is always freedom from the government.
LUDWIG VON MISESThis is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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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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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 struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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 liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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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