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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

Ludwig von Mises

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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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Call Destroy Done Economic Growth Interfere Life Nothing Policy Regulation State
Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Profit Success Tantamount Tax
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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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
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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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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Arisen Essence Father Make Out Peace Society War Work
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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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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
There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Anyone Evade Mean Personal Responsibility
The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Capitalism Everybody Need Other Provide Serving Under
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Evil Government Peace War Worst
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Ask Freedom Government Interference More Peace Ultimately War

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