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• An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The whole system of interventionism collapses when the fountain is drained off: The Santa Clause principle liquidates itself.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Forever, Principles

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• The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.

  Ludwig von Mises

  School, Character, Long

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• A nation cannot prosper if its members are not fully aware of the fact that what alone can improve their condition s is more and better production. And this can only be brought about by increased saving and capital accumulation.

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  Saving, Facts, Accumulation

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

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• The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states will eternally drag the burden of these interest payments. It is obvious that sooner or later all these debts will be liquidated in some way or other, but certainly not by payment of interest and principal according to the terms of the contract.

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  Believe, Debt, Way

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.282, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

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  Peace, War, Mean

  "Human Action: A Treatise on Economics".

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• The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all privileges hurt the interests of the rest of the nation or at least a great part of it.

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  Hurt, Liberty, Privilege

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• The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

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  Business, Political, Doe

  Human Action: A Treatise on Economics ch. 15 (1949)

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• 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.

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  Slumps, Credit, Way

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

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• The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which the treasury or agencies which it controls have printed the magical words legal tender.

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  Men, Agency, Looks

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• The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.

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  War, Achievement, Peaceful

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

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• It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

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  Men, Foundation, Inward

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.10, VM eBooks

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• Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part of man. It is created and increased by saving and maintained by the abstention from dissaving.

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  Men, Free Gifts, Saving

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints

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  Real, Angel, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.23, VM eBooks

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• The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.

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  Mean, Increase, Aim

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.12, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.

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  Attitude, Fighting, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.112, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Human action is purposeful behavior.

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  Action, Behavior, Humans

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.17, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Everything brought forward in favor of Socialism during the last hundred years, in thousands of writings and speeches, all the blood which has been spilt by the supporters of Socialism, cannot make socialism workable.

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  Writing, Blood, Years

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.109, VM eBooks

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• Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present.

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  Economic, Reaching, Speculation

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.118, VM eBooks

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• No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.

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  Behavior, Architect, Responsible

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• The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.

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  Successful, Employment, Height

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

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• The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital accumulation.

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  Industrialization, World, Investment

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.86, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is
  ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas
  engender social institutions, political changes, technologi-
  cal methods of production, and all that is called economic
  conditions.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Ideas, Political

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• Monetary calculation is not the calculation, and certainly not the measurement, of value. Its basis is the comparison of the more important and the less important. It is an ordering according to rank, an act of grading (Cuhel), and not an act of measuring. It was a mistake to search for a measure of the value of goods. In the last analysis, economic calculation does not rest on the measurement of values, but on their arrangement in an order of rank.

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  Mistake, Order, Important

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.169, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

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  School, Citizens, Incentives

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• Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Plato, Kind, Members

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