Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
LUDWIG VON MISESEconomic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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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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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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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 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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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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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 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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