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• It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.

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  Fighting, Men, Order

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

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• If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

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  Civilization, Would Be, Economy

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

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• Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

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  Mistake, Mean, Making Mistakes

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.22, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man's human existence.

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  Philosophy, Men, Civilization

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

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• The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

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  Truth, Criteria, Acknowledge

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

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• The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.

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  Law, Fundamentals, Customers

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

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• To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire.

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  Equality Under The Law, Offering, Giving

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• The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.

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  Country, Order, Government

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• He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

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  Citizens, Want, Fellows

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

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• The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are. For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.

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  People, Entrepreneur, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.6, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

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  Men, Liberty, Politics

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• Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

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  Government, Liberty, Unemployment

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• [E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

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  Government, Law, Long

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

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• The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.

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  Freedom, Ideas, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.18, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

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  Real, Boss, Economy

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.20, VM eBooks

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• If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

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  Government, Weakness, Laissez Faire

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

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• The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

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  Life, People, Intellectual

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.81, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

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  Peace, War, Government

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

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• He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

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  Profit, Highest

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• Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

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  Achievement, Needs, Speak

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Money, method, and the market process: essays”, Kluwer Academic Pub

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• What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

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  Sound, Needs, Today

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• Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.

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  Entrepreneur, Progress, Use

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.243, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!

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  Exercise, Idols, People

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

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• Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

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  Decline, Difficult, Indivisible

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.398, Lulu Press, Inc

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• All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

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  Thinking, Firsts, Action

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.86, VM eBooks

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