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Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

Ludwig von Mises

Intolerance, Liberalism

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What is a loophole? If the law does not punish a definite action or does not tax a definite thing, this is not a loophole. It is simply the law.

Ludwig von Mises

Law, Doe, Action

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The Pseudo-liberals monopolize the teaching jobs at many universities. Only men who agree with them are appointed as teachers and instructors of the social sciences, and only textbooks supporting their ideas are used.

Ludwig von Mises

Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

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What can prevent the coming of totalitarian socialism is only a thorough change in ideologies. What we need is an open positive endorsement of that system to which we owe all the wealth that distinguished our age from the conditions of ages gone by.

Ludwig von Mises

Age, Needs, Gone

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Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities of which, only a hundred years ago, not even the richest nabobs dreamed.

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Average, Years, Today

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

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In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

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Fields, Administration, Favoritism

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.918, Lulu Press, Inc

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Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates.

Ludwig von Mises

Money, Public Opinion, Want

"A Critique of Interventionism". Book by Ludwig von Mises, p. 163, 1929.

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It is not enough for [the investor] to know all the factors that can possibly contribute to the determination of a future event. In order to anticipate correctly they must also anticipate correctly the quantity as it were of each factor's contribution and the instant at which its contribution will become effective.

Ludwig von Mises

Determination, Order, Events

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Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.

Ludwig von Mises

Freedom, Drunk, Democracy

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

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Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Ludwig von Mises

Peace, Father, War

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.

Ludwig von Mises

Exercise, Hands, Legislature

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

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The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

Ludwig von Mises

War, Struggle, Men

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.260, VM eBooks

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Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.

Ludwig von Mises

Government, Views, Progress

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

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There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.

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Planning, Welfare, General Welfare

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

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In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined. There is only groping in the dark. Socialism is the abolition of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

Dark, Determined, Socialism

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Economic Calculation In the Socialist Commonwealth”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc

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Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.

Ludwig von Mises

Men, People, Age

Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.3, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.

Ludwig von Mises

Men, Luxury, Doe

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist”, p.105, VM eBooks

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One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.

Ludwig von Mises

Illumination, Sobriety, Vision

Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.48, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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A nation, therefore, has no right to say to a province: You belong to me, I want to take you. A province consists of its inhabitants. If anybody has a right to be heard in this case it is these inhabitants. Boundary disputes should be settled by plebiscite.

Ludwig von Mises

Want, Boundaries, Disputes

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

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The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

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Economy, Social, Supremacy

Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Money, method, and the market process: essays”, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

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Freedom, Men, Russia

Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.36, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action appeared, where is lays out his case in a more popular form. The money sentences are “Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis. It has happened again and again in the past, and it will happen in the future, too.

Ludwig von Mises

Past, Years, Two

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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend.

Ludwig von Mises

Mean, Thinking, Government

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.898, Lulu Press, Inc

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Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories.

Ludwig von Mises

Party, Thinking, Political

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics ch. 38 (1949)

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The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate. They misuse their power for the oppression of those whom they were expected to defend against oppression. The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Ludwig von Mises

Struggle, Men, Community

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

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Born: September 29, 1881
Died: October 10, 1973
Occupation: Philosopher
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