There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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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 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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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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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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Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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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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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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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