Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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 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 first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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