The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
LUDWIG VON MISESGerman Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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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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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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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 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 worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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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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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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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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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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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