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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.

Ludwig von Mises

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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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Acknowledge Construction Dreadful Peace Root War Weapon
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
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Beat Enforcement Essential Government Kill
Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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Ability Appointed Elite Example Neglect Problem Self Supermen Surrender
The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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First Freedom Order Requistle Return Speech Unrestricted
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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Capitalism Fanatical Fighting Homage Implicity Liberty Passionately People Zeal
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Civilization Cultural Higher Living Standard
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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Agree Liberty Meaningless Only Power
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
Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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Accumulate Capital Economic Entrepreneur Progress Saver Turn
They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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Constitution Direct Freedom Government Illusory Law Market Other System
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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Catchwork Domination Matter Other Person Popular Reliance Vital Yield
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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Avoid Boom Collapse Credit Expansion Final Liberty Mean
Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Capitalism Everybody Need Other Provide Serving Under
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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Ask Freedom Government Interference More Peace Ultimately War

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