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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.

Ludwig von Mises

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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.
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Civilization Evil Force Men State Worship
He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Best Highest Make Profit Public Service
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Ask Essential Freedom Government Imprisoning More Ultimate
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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Accelerate Accumulate Against Available Capital Condition Government Growth Improve Mankind Material Mean Party
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
This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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Abuse Capitalism Destroy Eager Government Most Profit System Yet
The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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Ability Anticipate Demand Entrepreneur Future Other People Profit Source Stem
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
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Civilization Cultural Higher Living Standard
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
The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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Abandonment Alternative Come Currency Expansion Involved Sooner Voluntary Whether
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
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
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
The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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Democracy Enny Give Giving Market Pennies
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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