Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
LUDWIG VON MISESGovernment is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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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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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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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 philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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