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
LUDWIG VON MISESThe market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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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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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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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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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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