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• If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

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  World, Increase, Purchasing Power

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.66, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

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  Peace, War, Roots

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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 government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

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  Government, People, Pockets

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

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• Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

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  Profit

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

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• Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.

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  Expansion, Aftermath, Credit

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

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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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• Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  "Planned Chaos". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1947.

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• The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

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  Steps, Socialism, Welfare

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• Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the common man. It has raised the average standard of living to a height never dreamed of in earlier ages. It has made accessible to millions of people enjoyments which a few generations ago were only within the reach of a small élite.

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  Men, Average, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.49, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

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  Government, Coercion, Compulsion

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• The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.

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  Expansion, Finals, Credit

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• There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the highest standard of living ever attained. Full government control of all activities of the individual is virtually the goal of both national parties.

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  Party, Government, Goal

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

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• In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

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  Talking, Income, Asking

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

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• Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

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  Jealous, Justice, Maintaining

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• The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.

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  Party, Independent, Ambition

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.585, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

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  Government, Liberty, Negation

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• The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

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  Way, Serious, Danger

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

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• The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.

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  People, Want, Dictator

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.15, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management.

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  Mean, Government, Political

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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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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• 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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• Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

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  Mean, Use, Possession

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.52, VM eBooks

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• Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

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  Race, Members, Ill

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

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• It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They believe that the authorities of a socialist commonwealth would pay them higher salaries than those that they earn under capitalism.

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  Believe, Envy, Feelings

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

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