For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
LUDWIG VON MISESFree 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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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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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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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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 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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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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