Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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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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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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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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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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