A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
LUDWIG VON MISESAs 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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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. 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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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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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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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