It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
LUDWIG VON MISESTaxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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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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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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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 essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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