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• The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

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  Average, Enjoy, Workers

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.327, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

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  Civilization, Principles, Alternatives

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• It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

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  Tasks, Generations, Provoking

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

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• The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer.

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  Responsible, Producers, Consumers

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• The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.

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  Historical, Public Opinion, Roles

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

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• It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.

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  Fate, Opportunity, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.90, VM eBooks

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• All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.

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  Almsgiving

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.424, VM eBooks

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• Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.

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  Giving, Doe, Finals

  Ludwig Von Mises, Israël M. Kirzner (1982). “Method, Process, and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig Von Mises”, Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books

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• In the land of the lotus-eaters there is no action. Action arises only from need, from dissatisfaction. It is purposeful striving towards something. Its ultimate end is always to get rid of a condition which is conceived to be deficient-to fulfill a need, to achieve satisfaction, to increase happiness.

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  Land, Lotuses, Needs

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.85, VM eBooks

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• Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status system step by step.

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  Satisfaction, Steps, Improvement

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

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• Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

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  Struggle, Men, Survival

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

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• If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary requisite of civilization and material well-being. All civilizations have up to now been based on private property. Only nations committed to the principle of private property have risen above penury and produced science, art, and literature. There is no experience to show that any other social system could provide mankind with any of the achievements of civilization.

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  Wisdom, Art, Mean

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• It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.

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  Law, Worst, Gangsters

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.51, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. The contradiction between individual principle and social principle disappears.

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  Essence, Principles, Division

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• The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many.

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  Average, Progress, Improvement

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• He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

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  Destiny, Wish, Events

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

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• Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.

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  Men, Perfect, Violence

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

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• No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.

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  Liberty, Tasks, Sowing

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible to him. Looking backward upon the years of his own life, he realizes that many implements that were totally unknown in the days of his youth and many others which at that time could be enjoyed only by a small minority are now standard equipment of almost every household.

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  Philosophy, Average, Years

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

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• It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.

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  Government, Banking, Granted

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.552, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Resentment is at work when one so hates somebody for his more favorable circumstances that one is prepared to bear heavy losses if only the hated one might also come to harm. Many of those who attack capitalism know very well that their situation under any other economic system will be less favorable.

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  Hate, Loss, Might

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

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• The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.

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  Innovation, Rules And Regulations, Body

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

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• The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.

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  Thinking, Class, Ability

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• There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions

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  Government, Law, Parent

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

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• If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

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  Peace, War, Race

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

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