In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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