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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.

Ludwig von Mises

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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
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Depression Government Interference Market Mass Unemployment
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Civilization Cultural Higher Living Standard
The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Afraid Driven Liar Pronouncement Suppress
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
Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Effect Perpetuation Unemployment
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 entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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Capitalist Consumer Entrepreneur Succeed Supply Technologies
Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Capitalism Everybody Need Other Provide Serving Under
He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Best Highest Make Profit Public Service
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
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 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 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
The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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Doe Giving Government Somebody Truth
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

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