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.
LUDWIG VON MISESCapitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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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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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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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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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 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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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