Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
LUDWIG VON MISESThose who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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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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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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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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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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