The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
LUDWIG VON MISESNone can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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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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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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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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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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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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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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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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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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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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