Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
LUDWIG VON MISESLiberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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It 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 Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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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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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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