Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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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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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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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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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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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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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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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