Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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