The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
LUDWIG VON MISESCapitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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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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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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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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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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 interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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