Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
LUDWIG VON MISESAs conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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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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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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What 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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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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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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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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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 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.
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