The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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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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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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