Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
LUDWIG VON MISESUnder capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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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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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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