If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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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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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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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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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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