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There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

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Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local.

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Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots.

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The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

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The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.

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Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.

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The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness

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The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.

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The problem is that he originated nothing that was true, and that whatever he originated was wrong.

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The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.

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The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

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States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

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The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

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Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.

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The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

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The more these readjustments are delayed... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.

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Inflation may be defined as any increase in the economy's supply of money not consisting of an increase in the stock of the money metal.

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John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.

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It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

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Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

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Money is a commodity … not a useless token only good for exchanging; … It differs from other commodities in being demanded mainly as a medium of exchange.

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This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

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The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.

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The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, 'Limit yourself'; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

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If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and... try freedom.

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