Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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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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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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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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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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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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