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 MISESThe root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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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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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. 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 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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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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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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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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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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