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| Famine | He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists. |
| Finance and Economics | the only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at. |
| Finance and Economics | Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable. |
| Finance and Economics | The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society. |
| Finance and Economics | 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 men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow... |
| Finance and Economics | Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform. |
| Finance and Economics | The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism. |
| Finance and Economics | 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. |
| Finance and Economics | What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. |
| Finance and Economics | What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need. |
| Finance and Economics | It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power. |
| Finance and Economics | As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. |
| Finance and Economics | He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists. |
| Finance and Economics | Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. |
| Government | The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty. |
| Government | If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. |
| Government | The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. |
| Government | The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. |
| Government | economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics. |
| Government | Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions. |
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