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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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 liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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