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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.

Ludwig von Mises

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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Effect Perpetuation Unemployment
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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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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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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.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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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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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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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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The 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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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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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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