The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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 flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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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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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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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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 root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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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