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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.

Ludwig von Mises

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
Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Dictator Disguise Socialist
The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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Customer Fundamentals Law Right
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
What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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Liberation Mankind Ned Ninsensical Reason Return Rule Slogan Sound Today
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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Anybody Cause Contrary Corollary Entrepreneur Make People Poverty Process Rich Some Want
Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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Achievement Capitalism Deliver Good Need Propoganda Themselves
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
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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Action Important Mean Men Prison Guard Remember Threat Violent
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
Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Effect Perpetuation Unemployment
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
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
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
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Criteria Criterion Prepare Truth
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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Authoritarian Create Individual Limit Operation Private Spheres State

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