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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThey call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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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 real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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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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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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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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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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