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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Ludwig von Mises

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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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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 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.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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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 worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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