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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

Ludwig von Mises

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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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Anybody Effort Entrepreneur Poverty Successful
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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Common Country Entrepreneur Higher Man Men Number Standard
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Beat Enforcement Essential Government Kill
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Freedom Mean Mistake Really
The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Afraid Driven Liar Pronouncement Suppress
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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Ability Appointed Elite Example Neglect Problem Self Supermen Surrender
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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Attitude Boss Capital Consumer Economic Market Real Running System
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Agree Liberty Meaningless Only Power
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Action Economics Meaning Men Motivational Object Success
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Ask Freedom Government Interference More Peace Ultimately War
The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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Boss Capital Consumer Market System
The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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Act God Important Inflation Most Remember Things
Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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Arm Employment Gendarme Government Hangmen Last Prison Resort Soldier
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Criteria Criterion Prepare Truth
The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Always Government Issues Liberty Solution
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Depression Government Interference Market Mass Unemployment

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