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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Ludwig von Mises

Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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Additional Borrow Citizen Fund Government Job Provide Spend Taxi
The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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Creative Defies Learn Mark Mind
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Better Build Historical Indispensable Knowledge Want World
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
Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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Capitalism Need Number People Standard Steadily World
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
They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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Appearance Artificial Boom Collapse Create Depression Expansion Open Soon Way
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Action Economics Meaning Men Motivational Object Success
The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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Doe Giving Government Somebody Truth
Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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Choose Division Entrepreneur Faire Individual Labor Liassez Mean Mechanical Operate Soules
Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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Answer Change Cooperative Division Economical Free Individual Labor Market Mean Mena Simple System
Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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Better Least Mean Order Pretend Socialism Spoiler Thousand Year
If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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Increase Lowering Monetary Power Purchasing World
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Beat Enforcement Essential Government Kill
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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Common Country Entrepreneur Higher Man Men Number Standard
State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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Call Destroy Done Economic Growth Interfere Life Nothing Policy Regulation State

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