The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
LUDWIG VON MISESIt is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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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 essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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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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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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