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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

Ludwig von Mises

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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Autonomy Freedom Individual Intellectual Nurture Progress Root Soil Ultimately
The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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Credit Expansion Final General Impoverishment Outcome
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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Adopt Fight Method Totalitarian Vain
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Depression Government Interference Market Mass Unemployment
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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Action First Rational Reason Think
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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Additional Borrow Citizen Fund Government Job Provide Spend Taxi
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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Authoritarian Create Enslave Limit Operation Private Property Set
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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Capitalism Fanatical Fighting Homage Implicity Liberty Passionately People Zeal
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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Call Freedom Liberal Popular Press Religion Speech Though Today
Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Against Evil Giving Invest Proceed
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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Call Consequences Government Intervention Marketplace Unintended
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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Attitude Boss Capital Consumer Economic Market Real Running System
The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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Ambition Change Defeat Doctrine Excellent Independent Make Money Party Political Purchase Standard
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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Despotism Freedom Oligarch Opinion Public Resistance Struggle Ultimately
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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Civilization Evil Force Men State Worship
Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Effect Perpetuation Unemployment

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