Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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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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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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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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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 struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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 champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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