All 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
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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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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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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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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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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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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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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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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