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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.

Ludwig von Mises

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
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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Call Consequences Government Intervention Marketplace Unintended
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 Create Enslave Limit Operation Private Property Set
Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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Achievement Capitalism Deliver Good Need Propoganda Themselves
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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Autonomy Freedom Individual Intellectual Nurture Progress Root Soil Ultimately
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Government Make Poorer Richer
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.
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Catchword Civilization Continue Help Inciting Mass Socialism Sound Taken Work Year
The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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Anybody Effort Entrepreneur Poverty Successful
The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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Credit Expansion Final General Impoverishment Outcome
Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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Arm Employment Gendarme Government Hangmen Last Prison Resort Soldier
This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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Abuse Capitalism Destroy Eager Government Most Profit System Yet
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
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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Course Disaster Liberty Mischief Often Peace Source State War
The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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Disagree Fact Function Judgement Mean Member Mistake Society Value
The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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Ability Anticipate Demand Entrepreneur Future Other People Profit Source Stem
Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Always Government Liberty

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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