Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
LUDWIG VON MISESA free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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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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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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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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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 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 worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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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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