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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Ludwig von Mises

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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Compromise Death Happiness Liberty Mean Misery Ownership Prefer Suffering
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
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
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
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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All Allegedly Believe Capitalism Contol Government Liar Philosophy
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
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Acknowledge Construction Dreadful Peace Root War Weapon
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
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
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
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
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
Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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Accumulate Capital Economic Entrepreneur Progress Saver Turn
The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Come Country Danger Life Serious Way
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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Call Freedom Liberal Popular Press Religion Speech Though Today
In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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Battle Between Force Ideas Latterm Prevail

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