Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
LUDWIG VON MISESCapitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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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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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. 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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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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