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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

Ludwig von Mises

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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
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Criteria Criterion Prepare Truth
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
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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Anybody Cause Contrary Corollary Entrepreneur Make People Poverty Process Rich Some Want
Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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Better Least Mean Order Pretend Socialism Spoiler Thousand Year
The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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Consider Courage Intelectual Most Movement People Popular Truth
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
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
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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Difficult Enter Freedom Indivisible One Restrict Soon Start Stop
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
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
The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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Ambition Change Defeat Doctrine Excellent Independent Make Money Party Political Purchase Standard
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
There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Anyone Evade Mean Personal Responsibility
The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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Anybody Effort Entrepreneur Poverty Successful
He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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Citizen Fellow Rule Them Until Want

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