The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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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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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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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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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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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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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