Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.
Ludwig von MisesAll this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.
Ludwig von MisesTwo hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.
Ludwig von Mises