What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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 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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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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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