The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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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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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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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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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.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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