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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.

Ludwig von Mises

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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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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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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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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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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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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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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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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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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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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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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