The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
LUDWIG VON MISES[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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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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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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.
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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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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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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