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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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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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 is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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