Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
LUDWIG VON MISESEconomic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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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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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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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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