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• It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations—not in their personal conduct—a disdain of things secular and transitory. But the public ignores such utterances. The main goal of present-day political action is to secure for the respective pressure group memberships the highest material well-being. The only way for a leader to succeed is to instill in people the conviction that his program best serves the attainment of this goal.

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  Pressure Groups, Circles, Goal

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.

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  Powerful, Army, Government

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

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• There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

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  Art, Government, Literature

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

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• Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

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  Peace, Attitude, War

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.394, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income.

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  Progress, Income, Making Money

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

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• The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be raised without harm to anybody. They speak of profit without dealing with loss. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities. A profitable enterprise tends to expand; an unprofitable one tends to shrink. The elimination of profit renders production rigid and abolishes the consumer's control.

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  Mean, Eye, Loss

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• Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

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  Ego, Society, Individual

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.39, VM eBooks

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• Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.

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  Acting, Action, Reason

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.85, VM eBooks

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• Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.

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  Government, Liberty, Economic

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

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  War, Liberty, Socialism

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• If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

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  Peace, War, Fate

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

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• Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

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  Money, War, Revolution

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• Socialist society is a society of officials.

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  Socialist, Officials

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.161, VM eBooks

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• Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

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  Ideas, Common Sense, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.83, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.

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  Passion, Mind, Liberty

  "Liberalism in Caricature". Review of "The Anti-Capitalist Mentality", The Economist Magazine, April 13, 1957.

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• What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.

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  Government, Credit, Sake

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs.

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  Freedom, Law, Essence

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.49, VM eBooks

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• He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions disarrange valuations. Inflamed with passion, man sees the goal as more desirable and the price he has to pay for it as less burdensome than he would in cool deliberation.

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  Passion, Men, Emotional

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.23, Lulu Press, Inc

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• During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.

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  Plato, Years, Ideas

  "Marxism Unmasked: From Delusion to Destruction". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1952.

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• What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation.

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  Commodity Prices, People, Investing

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

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• The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.

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  United States, Outcomes, Facts

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.

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  Connections, Administration, Revenue

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership.

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  Teaching, Successful, Demand

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely perfect solutions of any problem are out of reach of mortal men. What the operation of a market not sabotaged by the interference of compulsion and coercion can bring about is merely the best solution accessible to the human mind under the given state of technological knowledge and the intellectual abilities of the age's shrewdest men.

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  Men, Perfect, Mind

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• There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.

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  Employment, Tendencies, Labor

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