This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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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 first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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