To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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