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 MISESIf you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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They 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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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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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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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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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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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