A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
LUDWIG VON MISESThe champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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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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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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