Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnder capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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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 causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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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 worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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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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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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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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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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