Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESSocialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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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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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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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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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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