The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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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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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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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 worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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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 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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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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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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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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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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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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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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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