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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

Ludwig von Mises

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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Best Highest Make Profit Public Service
This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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Abuse Capitalism Destroy Eager Government Most Profit System Yet
The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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According Dictator Other Own People Plan Planner Potential Power Want Deprive
There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Anyone Evade Mean Personal Responsibility
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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Attitude Boss Capital Consumer Economic Market Real Running System
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Criteria Criterion Prepare Truth
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Civilization Cultural Higher Living Standard
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Ask Freedom Government Interference More Peace Ultimately War
German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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Against Change Coin Country Human Human Nature Nature Philosophy Political Socialism
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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Advocate Consumed Greater Income Invest Tax
Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Capitalism Everybody Need Other Provide Serving Under
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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Account Faire Faliblity Government Laissez Man Moral React Reason Reject Same Weakness
The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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Ambition Change Defeat Doctrine Excellent Independent Make Money Party Political Purchase Standard
What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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Envy Expectation Ilusion Mass Push Richer Socialism
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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Attribute Bosses Easy Make Men Profit Result Stem
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Evil Government Peace War Worst

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