The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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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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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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Socialism 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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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