In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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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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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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