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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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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[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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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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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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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.
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. 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 issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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