All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
LUDWIG VON MISESAll people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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For 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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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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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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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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