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

Ludwig von Mises

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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
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Abolish Collapse Country Gold Government Inflation Order Pave Wave
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
A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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Mind New People State Superstitious Type Worship
Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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Economic First Intellectual Problem Prosperity Spiritual
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
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 causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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Causes Crash Credit Depression Four Panic Summed
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 interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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Approach Distinteretedness Economic Entrepreneur Interventionist Liberty Matter People Scientific Study
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
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
The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Always Government Issues Liberty Solution
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Freedom Make Mean Mistake
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
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

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