Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
LUDWIG VON MISESLaissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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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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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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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 essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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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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