There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
LUDWIG VON MISESAll 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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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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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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None 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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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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 root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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