The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
LUDWIG VON MISESIt is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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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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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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 entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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