The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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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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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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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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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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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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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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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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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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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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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