Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhat mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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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.
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