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• It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.

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  Fighting, Men, Order

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

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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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  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  "Planned Chaos". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1947.

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• Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

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  Mistake, Mean, Making Mistakes

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.22, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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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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  Peace, War, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

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  Sound, Needs, Today

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• The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

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  Public Opinion, Favors, Socialism

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• It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

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  Challenges, Doe, Attention

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.

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  Causes, Credit, Four

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• The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.

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  Struggle, Men, Survival

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• 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.

  Ludwig von Mises

  People, Want, Dictator

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.15, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• 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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  Men, Two, Doe

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

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• There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the highest standard of living ever attained. Full government control of all activities of the individual is virtually the goal of both national parties.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Government, Goal

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.

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  Party, Independent, Ambition

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.585, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

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  Achievement, Needs, Speak

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Money, method, and the market process: essays”, Kluwer Academic Pub

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• Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Government, Law

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.

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  Exercise, Thinking, Evil

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• Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

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  Men, Liberty, Politics

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• The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. 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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  Freedom, Ideas, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.18, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• [E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

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  Government, Law, Long

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

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• Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.

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  Political, Intellectual, Progress

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• Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

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  Government, Liberty, Unemployment

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• 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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  Government, Weakness, Laissez Faire

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

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• The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas, all they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems. The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.

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  Philosophy, Liars, Blessing

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• The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

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  Real, Boss, Economy

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.20, VM eBooks

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• He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

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  Citizens, Want, Fellows

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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