Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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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 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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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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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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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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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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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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