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• Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.

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  Nature, Freedom

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.166, VM eBooks

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• No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money.

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  Availability, Welfare, Increase

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.86, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

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  Peace, War, Order

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

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• The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

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  Government, Law, Pillars

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.39, VM eBooks

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• In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

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  Country, People, Cabinets

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.52, VM eBooks

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• What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.

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  Men, What Matters, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.81, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.

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  Mean, Men, People

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.

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  Struggle, Men, Thinking

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

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• The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.

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  Sacrifice, Views, People

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.65, VM eBooks

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• Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

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  Criticism, Atheism, Tasks

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• There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.

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  Truth, Learning, Knowledge

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• Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

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  Self, Height, Certain

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• Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government.

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  Government, Law, Quality

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

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• There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.

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  Society, Events, Analysis

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

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• You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.

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  Men, Effort, Arrogance

  Ludvig von Mises' letter to Ayn Rand praising Atlas Shrugged (January 23, 1958) as quoted in Jorg Guido Hulsmann "Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism", September 4, 2007.

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• American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

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  Men, Barbarians, Making Money

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.20, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of contemporary governments. It is the pseudo-philosophy of those who can think of nothing else than to dissipate the capital accumulated by previous generations.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Government

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

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• The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

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  Society, Scarcity, Natural

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

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• Thus, the isolated interference with one or a few prices of consumer goods always bring about effects-and this is important to realize-which are even less satisfactory than the conditions that prevailed before.

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  Government, Important, Realizing

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.45, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind were the product of a spontaneous effort on the part of individuals; government substitutes coercion for voluntary action.

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  Pain, Men, Effort

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

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• Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the same extent as our minds surpass those of the insects. Perhaps there will once somewhere live beings who will look upon us with the same condescension as we look upon amoebae.

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  Mind, Looks, Infinite

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

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• What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.

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  Men, Self, Fellow Man

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

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• Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.

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  Two, Action, Reason

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

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• The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

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  Ideas, Mankind

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.187, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrant's feet. Then the oppressed many will rise in rebellion and overthrow their masters.

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  Running, Cutting, Government

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist”, p.264, VM eBooks

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