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Ludwig von Mises

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
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
They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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Appearance Artificial Boom Collapse Create Depression Expansion Open Soon Way
A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. 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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Between Capitalism Choose Socialism Society System
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
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
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
What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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Advocate Consumed Greater Income Invest Tax
Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Profit Success Tantamount Tax
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
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
Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Always Government Liberty
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
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Freedom Mean Mistake Really
The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Civilization Evil Force Men State Worship
The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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Against Gainst Man Men Minority Struggle Survival

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