Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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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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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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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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