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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.

Ludwig von Mises

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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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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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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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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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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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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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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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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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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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