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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

Ludwig von Mises

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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 truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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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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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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