The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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