Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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 root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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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 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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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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