It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESEvery socialist is a disguised dictator.
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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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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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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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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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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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