All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
LUDWIG VON MISESAll 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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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 most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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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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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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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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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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 worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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