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.
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.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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 worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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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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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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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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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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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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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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