Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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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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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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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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 essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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