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Ludwig von Mises

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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Corollary Economic Government Market Political Representative Socialism
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
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
They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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Bless Bureau Clerk Garden Man Promise Subordinate Transform
The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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Conceive Economic Factor Flowrm Human Ideas Intellectual Men Outstanding Social Society Sound Two
The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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Endure Evil Government Infected Mankind Worst
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
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Freedom Make Mean Mistake
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
This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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Abuse Capitalism Destroy Eager Government Most Profit System Yet
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
Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Capitalism Everybody Need Other Provide Serving Under
He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Best Highest Make Profit Public Service
The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Come Country Danger Life Serious Way
All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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Adversaries Average Call Name Stratagem Suspicion Unfortunately
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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Call Freedom Liberal Popular Press Religion Speech Though Today

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