Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
LUDWIG VON MISESFor destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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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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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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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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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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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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