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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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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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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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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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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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