Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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