Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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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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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 worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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If 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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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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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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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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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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