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.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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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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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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