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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

Ludwig von Mises

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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Bold Design Disregard Economic Fail History Law Long Political Record
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Better Build Historical Indispensable Knowledge Want World
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
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 free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Control Free Mean Over Press Private Production
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
The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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Class Freely Philosophy Progressive Tap Taxation Wealth
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
For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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Capitalism Condition Entrepreneur Immerse Improve Majority People
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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Authoritarian Create Individual Limit Operation Private Spheres State
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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Action Important Mean Men Prison Guard Remember Threat Violent
For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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Create Destruction Essence Private Production Social
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.
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Catchwork Domination Matter Other Person Popular Reliance Vital Yield
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
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
Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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Attribute Bosses Easy Make Men Profit Result Stem

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