In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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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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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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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 entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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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