If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
LUDWIG VON MISESThey 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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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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 greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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 mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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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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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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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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