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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.

Ludwig von Mises

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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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Account Faire Faliblity Government Laissez Man Moral React Reason Reject Same Weakness
They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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Aboish Democrat Dictatorship Government Liberal Revolution Themselves Upon
To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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Catchword Civilization Continue Help Inciting Mass Socialism Sound Taken Work Year
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
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
Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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Choose Division Entrepreneur Faire Individual Labor Liassez Mean Mechanical Operate Soules
The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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Endure Evil Government Infected Mankind Worst
The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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Disagree Fact Function Judgement Mean Member Mistake Society Value
Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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Additional Borrow Citizen Fund Government Job Provide Spend Taxi
Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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Ability Appointed Elite Example Neglect Problem Self Supermen Surrender
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
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Government Make Poorer Richer
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
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Civilization Cultural Higher Living Standard
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Action Economics Meaning Men Motivational Object Success
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Beat Enforcement Essential Government Kill

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