All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
LUDWIG VON MISESCapitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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Their 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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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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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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