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
LUDWIG VON MISESGovernment cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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