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- The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you…
- The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
- Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown…
- When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the…
- Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
- The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at…
- To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire…
- The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have…
- 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…
- He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions…
- The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome…
- The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
- The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.
- All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about…
- The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.
- No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell…
- Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.
- As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.
- There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should…
- Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
- Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and…
- [E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
- The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore,…
- The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who…
- Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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