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.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhat 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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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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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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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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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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