In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
LUDWIG VON MISESThey 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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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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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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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.
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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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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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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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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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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