Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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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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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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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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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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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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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