The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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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 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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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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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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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 issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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