The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
LUDWIG VON MISESEvery government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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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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.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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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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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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