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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Ludwig von Mises

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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Autonomy Freedom Individual Intellectual Nurture Progress Root Soil Ultimately
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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Authoritarian Create Enslave Limit Operation Private Property Set
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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Adversaries Average Call Name Stratagem Suspicion Unfortunately
Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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Economic First Intellectual Problem Prosperity Spiritual
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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Create Destruction Essence Private Production Social
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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Creative Genius Innovator Men School Taught
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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Constitution Direct Freedom Government Illusory Law Market Other System
The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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Ambition Change Defeat Doctrine Excellent Independent Make Money Party Political Purchase Standard
If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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Bless Dream Enlightenment Eternal Happiness Live Mean Possible State
The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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First Freedom Order Requistle Return Speech Unrestricted
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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Compromise Death Happiness Liberty Mean Misery Ownership Prefer Suffering
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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Corollary Economic Government Market Political Representative Socialism
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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Amount Better Capital Consume Good Greater Head Invest Produce
A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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Between Capitalism Choose Socialism Society System
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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Course Disaster Liberty Mischief Often Peace Source State War
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Ask Freedom Government Interference More Peace Ultimately War

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