Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
LUDWIG VON MISESAll they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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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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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 causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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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 riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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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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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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