Ludwig von Mises Quotes - Page 17

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• The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

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  Peace, Philosophy, War

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• Freedom and liberty always mean freedom from police interference.

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  Mean, Police, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.51, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.

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  Religious, Political, Different

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.43, VM eBooks

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• Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

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  Mean, Arms, Defeat

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.16, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

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  Dictator, Ends, Dictatorship

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences.

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  Doctrine, Genius, Facts

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.331, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

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  Peace, War, Race

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends.

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  Animal, Men, Sensual

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the successful entrepreneur. But the same people who scramble for these articles vilify the businessman and call his profit ill-got.

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  Successful, People, Entrepreneur

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other sciences.

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  Ideas, Patterns, Study

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.

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  Mean, Limits, Unnecessary

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship, philosophers judging the merits of thinkers and authors, not according to the value of their contributions but according to their achievements on battlefields, are the spiritual leaders of our age of perpetual strife.

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  Spiritual, Judging, Leader

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• We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

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  Fighting, Ideas, Substitutes

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.105, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

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  Freedom, Struggle, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.350, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

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  Mixing, Detrimental

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• Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich. Capital levies and high income taxes on the larger incomes are extraordinarily popular with the masses, who do not have to pay them.

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  Income, Demand, Pay

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.452, VM eBooks

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• The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. The truth is the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody.

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  Government, Giving, Magic

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.78, VM eBooks

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• Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups of scholars and specialists. Economics deals with society's fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.

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  Groups, Citizens, Fundamentals

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.1093, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process.

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  Kind, Drawbacks, Process

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.444, VM eBooks

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• The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power to force them to submit to his value judgments.

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  People, Choices, Democracy

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.479, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living of the masses in an unprecedented way.

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  Government, Way, Obstacles

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments.

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  Government, Ideas, Liberty

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.414, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

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  Wise, Problem, Concrete

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.78, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

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  Philosophy, Principles, Individualism

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• Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them only because 'they necessitate further inroads' upon the capitalist system and are 'unavoidable' as a means of bringing about socialism.

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  Mean, Income, Progressive

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