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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.

Ludwig von Mises

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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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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.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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All 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 philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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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 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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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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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 main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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