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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.

Ludwig von Mises

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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
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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Choose Division Entrepreneur Faire Individual Labor Liassez Mean Mechanical Operate Soules
The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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Ambition Change Defeat Doctrine Excellent Independent Make Money Party Political Purchase Standard
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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Course Disaster Liberty Mischief Often Peace Source State War
Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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Arm Employment Gendarme Government Hangmen Last Prison Resort Soldier
The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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Boss Capital Consumer Market System
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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Corollary Economic Government Market Political Representative Socialism
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
What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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Liberation Mankind Ned Ninsensical Reason Return Rule Slogan Sound Today
Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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Capitalism Need Number People Standard Steadily World
The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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Against Gainst Man Men Minority Struggle Survival
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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Action First Rational Reason Think
The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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Causes Crash Credit Depression Four Panic Summed
Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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Apply Government Ink Institution Paper Take Valuable Worthless
He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Citizen Fellow Rule Them Until Want

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