What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
LUDWIG VON MISESSocialism 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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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Free 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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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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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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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