The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere 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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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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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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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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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