The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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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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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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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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[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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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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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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