The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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