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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.

Ludwig von Mises

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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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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 whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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