Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
LUDWIG VON MISESGerman Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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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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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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