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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.

Ludwig von Mises

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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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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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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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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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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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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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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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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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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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