The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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