The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
LUDWIG VON MISESThey promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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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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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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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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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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