The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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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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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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 causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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