The political/economic freedom of capitalism liberates the best minds and the most ambitious men to build, to create, to innovate, to invent, to advance human well-being and happiness.

Mankind's greatest inventor, Thomas Edison, in his laboratory at Menlo Park, specifically tailored his projects toward the purpose of profitability. He, and so many of the other great inventors and industrialists responsible for raising men's living standards, earned and enjoyed great wealth.

Left free - under capitalism - to create, produce, and build for personal gain they consequently raised the living standards of all.

The Mind!

Involved in this is a deeper principle: Capitalism is the system of the mind. The mind is man's fundamental survival instrument, just as wings are a bird's.

It is only by means of rational thinking and productive work that man can raise his living standards and increase his life expectancy.

But the mind does not function under coercion. Coercion paralyses creativity. The mind cannot be enslaved. Capitalism flourishes because it is the only system of free minds, free men and free markets.

The greatest thinkers and activists of history - from Aristotle to John Locke, from Thomas Jefferson to Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand - have recognized, fought for, and glorified the freedom of man's mind.

They have understood that when men are oppressed, the rational mind is stifled, and the darkness of barbarism follows.

But when men are free to think and to act on their thinking, when the mind is liberated, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment are possible.

Freedom Is Freedom of the Mind

Oppression Is Oppression of the Mind

Universal and Inevitable!

It is no accident that man's freest periods have seen his greatest achievements. From the Golden Age of Athens to the Italian Renaissance to the technological and industrial breakthroughs of the United States, the freedom of man's mind has led to magnificent advances in philosophy, the arts and science.

This is the promise and the possibility of capitalism. This is the Capitalist Vision. It is our vision!

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