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- The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.
- The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers came. They lived…
- The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself…
- The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What made some enterprises…
- The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only to…
- The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion,…
- All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail
- It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.
- The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment…
- The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to…
- The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
- Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find…
- What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it…
- The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its philosophy…
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