The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
LUDWIG VON MISESHe who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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