Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
LUDWIG VON MISESAll 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 philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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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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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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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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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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