Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
LUDWIG VON MISESA higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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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 cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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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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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.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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