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.
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 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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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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The 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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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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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