Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
LUDWIG VON MISESIf we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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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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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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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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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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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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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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