Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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 liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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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 essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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