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The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate. (Ludwig von Mises)
Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect - better because they alone give promise of final success. View quote
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Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline. View quote
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Now it cannot be denied that the only way one can offer effective resistance to violent assaults is by violence. View quote
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The ultimate outcome of the struggle, however, will not be decided by arms, but by ideas. View quote
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Is precisely in market dealings that market prices are formed for all kinds of goods and services, which will be taken as the bases of calculation. Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no economic calculation. View quote
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Every advocate of the welfare state and of planning is a potential dictator. View quote
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It is a double-edged makeshift to entrust an individual or a group of individuals with the authority to resort to violence. View quote
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In fact, however, the supporters of the welfare state are utterly anti-social and intolerant zealots. View quote
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To maintain and further raise our present level of economic development, peace among nations must be assured. But they cannot live together in peace if the basic tenet of the ideology by which they are governed is the belief that one's own nation can secure its place in the community of nations by force alone. View quote
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The particular interests of the entrepreneurs and capitalists also demand interventionism to protect them against the competition of more efficient and active men. The free development of the market economy is to be recommended, not in the interest of the rich, but in the interest of the masses of the people. (Ludwig von Mises)
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. View quote
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The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline. View quote
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The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn. Nobody can derive any profit from conquest, but many can suffer losses from fighting. War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression. The population of every territory is free to determine to which state it wishes to belong, or whether it prefers to establish a state of its own. All nations can coexist peacefully, because no nation is concerned about the size of its state. View quote
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The only certain fact about Russian affairs under the Soviet regime with regard to which all people agree is: that the standard of living of the Russian masses is much lower than ... the paragon of capitalism, the United States of America. If we were to regard the Soviet regime as an experiment, we would have to say that the experiment has clearly demonstrated the superiority of capitalism and the inferiority of socialism. View quote
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A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police. View quote
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