They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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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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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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Socialism 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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The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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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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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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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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