If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
LUDWIG VON MISESGerman Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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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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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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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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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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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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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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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 most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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