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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.

Ludwig von Mises

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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Bold Design Disregard Economic Fail History Law Long Political Record
They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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Constitution Direct Freedom Government Illusory Law Market Other System
The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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Addict Alcoholic Behavior Drug Gobverming Life Man Morality Person Rule
The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Market Misery Socialism State Step Transform Welfare
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
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
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
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 riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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Anybody Effort Entrepreneur Poverty Successful
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
If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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Bless Dream Enlightenment Eternal Happiness Live Mean Possible State
Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Profit Success Tantamount Tax
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Better Build Historical Indispensable Knowledge Want World
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
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
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

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