The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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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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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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 state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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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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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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