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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.

Ludwig von Mises

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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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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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