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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.

Ludwig von Mises

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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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Doe Giving Government Somebody Truth
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
Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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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
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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Arbitrary Cog Complement Complex Fiscal Government Gradually Inflation Institution Lead Policies Statism
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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Class Freely Philosophy Progressive Tap Taxation Wealth
The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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
What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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Envy Expectation Ilusion Mass Push Richer Socialism
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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Accelerate Accumulate Against Available Capital Condition Government Growth Improve Mankind Material Mean Party
The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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Condition Economic Important Intelligent Own Progeny Stake
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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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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