The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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