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.
LUDWIG VON MISESPlanning 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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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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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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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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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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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