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None 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.

Ludwig von Mises

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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 fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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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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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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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 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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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