A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
LUDWIG VON MISESAll rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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