All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
LUDWIG VON MISESA 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.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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