Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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 mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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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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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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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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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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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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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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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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