To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.

LUDWIG VON MISES

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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.

Ludwig von Mises

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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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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 Interventionist Scientific
The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.

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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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Abandonment Currency Expansion Involved Sooner Voluntary Whether
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.

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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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Boom Credit Expansion Final Mean
Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Profit Tantamount Tax
Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.

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The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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Capital Consume Greater Invest
Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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Authoritarian Enslave Operation Property Set
What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.

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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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Ilusion Mass Push Richer Socialism
The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.

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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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Addict Alcoholic Behavior Drug Gobverming Morality
He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Best Highest Make Profit
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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Mischief Often Source
The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.

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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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First Order Requistle Return Unrestricted
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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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 Inflation Order Voter
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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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 Subordinate
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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