Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
LUDWIG VON MISESDepression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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 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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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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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 root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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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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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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