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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Ludwig von Mises

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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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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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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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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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