Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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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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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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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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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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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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