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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

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Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

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Freedom and liberty always mean freedom from police interference.

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The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship

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The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

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The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.

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History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

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Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

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There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.

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The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

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The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken

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In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

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Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

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The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

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Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

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There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.

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Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present.

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Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

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There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.

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Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

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We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

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