The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
LUDWIG VON MISESAll 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 essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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 mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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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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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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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 final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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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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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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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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