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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production

Ludwig von Mises

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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Effect Perpetuation Unemployment
[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
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
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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Accelerate Accumulate Against Available Capital Condition Government Growth Improve Mankind Material Mean Party
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
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 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
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
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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Despotism Freedom Oligarch Opinion Public Resistance Struggle Ultimately
Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Always Government Liberty
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
Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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Economic First Intellectual Problem Prosperity Spiritual
He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Best Highest Make Profit Public Service
The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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Approach Distinteretedness Economic Entrepreneur Interventionist Liberty Matter People Scientific Study
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
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
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Government Make Poorer Richer
If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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Account Faire Faliblity Government Laissez Man Moral React Reason Reject Same Weakness
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 champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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Bless Championship Characteristics Garden Men Observation Progressive Recommend Routine Socialism System
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
The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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Boss Capital Consumer Market System
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.
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Bless Bureau Clerk Garden Man Promise Subordinate Transform
The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Civilization Evil Force Men State Worship
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
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
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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Better Build Historical Indispensable Knowledge Want World

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