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• The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

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  Community, Deception, Rooms

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

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• The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

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  Reality, Wish, Different

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

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• Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.

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  Inflation, Catastrophe

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

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• Every innovation makes its appearance as a 'luxury' of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a 'necessity' for all.

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  Luxury, Innovation, Appearance

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• So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to offer her legal and economic freedom to develop and act in accordance with her inclinations, desires, and economic circumstances—so far it is nothing more than a branch of the great liberal movement, which advocates peaceful and free evolution.

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  Men, Peaceful, Feminism

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.76, VM eBooks

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• The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.

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  Progress, Economic History, Trends

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• The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

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  Running, Attitude, Real

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

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  Money, War, Order

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

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• Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.

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  Unemployment, Effects

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

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• If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

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  Government, Evil, Balance

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.73, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

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  Government, Economic, Monetary System

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

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• Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

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  Mean, Economic, Ends

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

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• Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

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  Father, Class, Socialism

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

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• What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.

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  Saving, Small Business, Bigs

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

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• Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.

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  Mean, Simple, Division Of Labor

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• All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.

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  Mean, Police, States

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.13, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

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  Realization, Lasts, Socialism

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

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• The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.

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  Party, Liberty, Movement

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• The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

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  Philosophy, Progressive Taxation, Class

  Ludwig von Mises (2015). “Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism”, p.32, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty. Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams. Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

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  Dream, Mean, Blessing

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• A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

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  Civilization, Culture, Standards

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

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  Ideas, Political, Vices

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

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• The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.

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  Entrepreneur, Taxation, Succeed

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• True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

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  Running, Government, Issues

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

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• Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

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  Mean, Suffering, Liberty

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