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In a community of free people the freedom of economic activity is an inseparable part of the whole, and only this freedom will ensure a life worth living.

— Ludwig Erhard

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As I have said time and again, the focal point of our economy is the individual.

Any liberal system must proceed from the assumption that freedom is one and indivisible and that elementary human freedom in all spheres of life must go hand in hand with political, religious, economic and spiritual freedom. The strategy of collectivist thinking has always been to split up this most essential and most universal of human values as a means of making inroads into the free system itself.

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