Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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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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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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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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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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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 causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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