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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

Ludwig von Mises

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 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
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 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
German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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Against Change Coin Country Human Human Nature Nature Philosophy Political Socialism
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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All Allegedly Believe Capitalism Contol Government Liar Philosophy
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
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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Accelerate Accumulate Against Available Capital Condition Government Growth Improve Mankind Material Mean Party
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
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
Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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Accumulate Capital Economic Entrepreneur Progress Saver Turn
All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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Action First Rational Reason Think
A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Control Free Mean Over Press Private Production
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 whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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Action Apparatus Coercion Country Cutsom Gold Pencil Policemen Standard
The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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Abandonment Alternative Come Currency Expansion Involved Sooner Voluntary Whether

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