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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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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
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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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