A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
LUDWIG VON MISESTheir 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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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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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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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