In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
LUDWIG VON MISESCapitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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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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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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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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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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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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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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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 Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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