The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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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 entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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