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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Ludwig von Mises

Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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Answer Change Cooperative Division Economical Free Individual Labor Market Mean Mena Simple System
The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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Advocate Control Inflation Need Order Public Voter
The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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According Dictator Other Own People Plan Planner Potential Power Want Deprive
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
It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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Autonomy Freedom Individual Intellectual Nurture Progress Root Soil Ultimately
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
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
Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Profit Success Tantamount Tax
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
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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Capitalism Fanatical Fighting Homage Implicity Liberty Passionately People Zeal
Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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Authoritarian Create Enslave Limit Operation Private Property Set
Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Effect Perpetuation Unemployment
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
State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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Call Destroy Done Economic Growth Interfere Life Nothing Policy Regulation State
German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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Against Change Coin Country Human Human Nature Nature Philosophy Political Socialism
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Agree Liberty Meaningless Only Power

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