As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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All 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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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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