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.
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.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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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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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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