The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
LUDWIG VON MISESTo 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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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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 champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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