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Liberty is always freedom from the government.

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 advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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Advocate Control Inflation Need Order Public Voter
The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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Act God Important Inflation Most Remember Things
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
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Better Build Historical Indispensable Knowledge Want World
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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Avoid Boom Collapse Credit Expansion Final Liberty Mean
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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Capitalism Condition Entrepreneur Immerse Improve Majority People
He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Best Highest Make Profit Public Service
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Depression Government Interference Market Mass Unemployment
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
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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Creative Genius Innovator Men School Taught
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
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Freedom Make Mean Mistake
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
A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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Mind New People State Superstitious Type Worship
Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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Arm Employment Gendarme Government Hangmen Last Prison Resort Soldier

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