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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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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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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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All 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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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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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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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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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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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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