The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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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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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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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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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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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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