Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
LUDWIG VON MISESGerman Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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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 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 final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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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 philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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