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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Ludwig von Mises

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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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Catchwork Domination Matter Other Person Popular Reliance Vital Yield
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Civilization Cultural Higher Living Standard
They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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Constitution Direct Freedom Government Illusory Law Market Other System
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
True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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Additional Government Interest Issue Money Paper Rate Reduce Run Running Short
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Government Make Poorer Richer
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Freedom Make Mean Mistake
[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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Bold Design Disregard Economic Fail History Law Long Political Record
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
Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Effect Perpetuation Unemployment
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
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
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 Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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Market Misery Socialism State Step Transform Welfare
In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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Battle Between Force Ideas Latterm Prevail
Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Dictator Disguise Socialist

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