In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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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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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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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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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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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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The 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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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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