Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhat 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.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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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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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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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 worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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 essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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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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