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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.

Ludwig von Mises

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
There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Anyone Evade Mean Personal Responsibility
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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Attitude Boss Capital Consumer Economic Market Real Running System
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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Approach Battle Decisive Hang None Plunged Result Unconcern
A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Control Free Mean Over Press Private Production
The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Civilization Evil Force Men State Worship
Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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Achievement Capitalism Deliver Good Need Propoganda Themselves
If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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Account Faire Faliblity Government Laissez Man Moral React Reason Reject Same Weakness
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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Authoritarian Create Enslave Limit Operation Private Property Set
The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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Anybody Effort Entrepreneur Poverty Successful
The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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According Dictator Other Own People Plan Planner Potential Power Want Deprive
Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Dictator Disguise Socialist
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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Corollary Economic Government Market Political Representative Socialism
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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Despotism Freedom Oligarch Opinion Public Resistance Struggle Ultimately
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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Action First Rational Reason Think
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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Between Capitalism Choose Socialism Society System

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