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.
LUDWIG VON MISESNone can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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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 real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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