The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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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 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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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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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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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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