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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!

Ludwig von Mises

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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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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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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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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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Arisen Essence Father Make Out Peace Society War Work
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

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