Liberty is always freedom from the government.
LUDWIG VON MISESThere is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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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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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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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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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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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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