Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
LUDWIG VON MISESLaissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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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 essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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