The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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