Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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 real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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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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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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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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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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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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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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