The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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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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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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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