What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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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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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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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
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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