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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.

Ludwig von Mises

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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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Conceive Economic Factor Flowrm Human Ideas Intellectual Men Outstanding Social Society Sound Two
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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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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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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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Course Disaster Liberty Mischief Often Peace Source State War
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!
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Mind New People State Superstitious Type Worship
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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Create Destruction Essence Private Production Social
What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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Liberation Mankind Ned Ninsensical Reason Return Rule Slogan Sound Today
True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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Additional Government Interest Issue Money Paper Rate Reduce Run Running Short
Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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Capitalism Everybody Need Other Provide Serving Under
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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Arbitrary Cog Complement Complex Fiscal Government Gradually Inflation Institution Lead Policies Statism
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Civilization Cultural Higher Living Standard
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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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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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 first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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