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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.

Ludwig von Mises

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 truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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Consider Courage Intelectual Most Movement People Popular Truth
None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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Approach Battle Decisive Hang None Plunged Result Unconcern
Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Dictator Disguise Socialist
Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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Economic First Intellectual Problem Prosperity Spiritual
Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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Achievement Capitalism Deliver Good Need Propoganda Themselves
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
Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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Ability Appointed Elite Example Neglect Problem Self Supermen Surrender
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
All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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Adversaries Average Call Name Stratagem Suspicion Unfortunately
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
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
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 entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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Consumer Done Entrepreneur People Profit Successful
A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. 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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Between Capitalism Choose Socialism Society System
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

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