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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

Ludwig von Mises

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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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