Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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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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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. 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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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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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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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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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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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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