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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

Ludwig von Mises

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They 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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Aboish Democrat Dictatorship Government Liberal Revolution Themselves Upon
The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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Action Apparatus Coercion Country Cutsom Gold Pencil Policemen Standard
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Agree Liberty Meaningless Only Power
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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Alternative Being Capitalism Human Men Politics Socialism System
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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Better Least Mean Order Pretend Socialism Spoiler Thousand Year
In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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Catchwork Domination Matter Other Person Popular Reliance Vital Yield
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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Call Consequences Government Intervention Marketplace Unintended
Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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Aftermath Credit Depression Expansion
The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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Addict Alcoholic Behavior Drug Gobverming Life Man Morality Person Rule
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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Ability Anticipate Demand Entrepreneur Future Other People Profit Source Stem
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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Account Faire Faliblity Government Laissez Man Moral React Reason Reject Same Weakness
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Depression Government Interference Market Mass Unemployment
The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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Act God Important Inflation Most Remember Things
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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Amount Better Capital Consume Good Greater Head Invest Produce
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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Bless Dream Enlightenment Eternal Happiness Live Mean Possible State
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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Autonomy Freedom Individual Intellectual Nurture Progress Root Soil Ultimately

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