The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
LUDWIG VON MISESA free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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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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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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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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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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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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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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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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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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