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.
LUDWIG VON MISESHe who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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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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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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