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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.

Ludwig von Mises

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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Against Gainst Man Men Minority Struggle Survival
The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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Action Apparatus Coercion Country Cutsom Gold Pencil Policemen Standard
What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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Advocate Consumed Greater Income Invest Tax
Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Effect Perpetuation Unemployment
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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Action Important Mean Men Prison Guard Remember Threat Violent
The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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Always Government Issues Liberty Solution
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
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Depression Government Interference Market Mass Unemployment
Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
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Capitalism Need Number People Standard Steadily World
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Acknowledge Construction Dreadful Peace Root War Weapon
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
Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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Profit Success Tantamount Tax
The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Come Country Danger Life Serious Way
They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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Aboish Democrat Dictatorship Government Liberal Revolution Themselves Upon
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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Call Freedom Liberal Popular Press Religion Speech Though Today
Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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Compromise Death Happiness Liberty Mean Misery Ownership Prefer Suffering

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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