State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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To 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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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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 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.
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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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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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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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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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