Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
LUDWIG VON MISESNone can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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