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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Ludwig von Mises

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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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Endure Evil Government Infected Mankind Worst
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Beat Enforcement Essential Government Kill
Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Effect Perpetuation Unemployment
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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Anybody Cause Contrary Corollary Entrepreneur Make People Poverty Process Rich Some Want
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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Difficult Enter Freedom Indivisible One Restrict Soon Start Stop
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
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Ask Freedom Government Interference More Peace Ultimately War
For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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Create Destruction Essence Private Production Social
The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Civilization Evil Force Men State Worship
The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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Disagree Fact Function Judgement Mean Member Mistake Society Value
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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Advocate Consumed Greater Income Invest Tax
They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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Bless Bureau Clerk Garden Man Promise Subordinate Transform
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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Capitalism Fanatical Fighting Homage Implicity Liberty Passionately People Zeal
The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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Boss Capital Consumer Market System
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Evil Government Peace War Worst
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

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