Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
LUDWIG VON MISES
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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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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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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