Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
LUDWIG VON MISESLiberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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 Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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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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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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