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• Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

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  Peace, War, Limits

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• There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

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  Determination, Mean, Responsibility

  "Human Action". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1949.

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• Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups of scholars and specialists. Economics deals with society's fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.

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  Groups, Citizens, Fundamentals

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.1093, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Both force and money are impotent against ideas.

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  Ideas, Force

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

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• Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

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  Limits, Spheres, Individual

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.53, VM eBooks

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• The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.

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  People, Entrepreneur, Done

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

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• In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

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  Ideas, Battle, Force

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.37, VM eBooks

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• The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny.

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  Law, Tyranny, Worst

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

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• Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

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  Mean, Government, Law

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

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• Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

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  Teacher, School, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.13, VM eBooks

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• where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had been customarily understood, economists like Mises and Hayek pursued a different path, one Nietzsche would never have dared to take: they made the market the very expression of morality.

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  Expression, Path, Different

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• The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.

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  People, Entrepreneur, Demand

  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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• The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

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  Struggle, Political, Police

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

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• The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.

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  Essence, Play, Roles

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

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• Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.

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  Needs, Serving Others, Capitalism

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• The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

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  Government, Essentials, Enforcement

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

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• Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.

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  Political, Intellectual, Progress

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• Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

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  Government, Political, Socialism

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

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• An entrepreneur cannot be trained. A man becomes and entrepreneur by seizing an opportunity and filling the gap. No special education is required for such a display of keen judgment, foresight, and energy.

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  Opportunity, Men, Entrepreneur

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

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• The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would create poverty for all.

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  May, Poverty, Execution

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

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• What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

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  Men, People, Liberty

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• The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of a consistent application of these doctrines.

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  Philosophy, War, Age

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• My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

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  Civilization, Decline, Theory

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• It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

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  War, Competition, Battle

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.285, VM eBooks

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• We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.

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  Civilization, Division Of Labor, Culture

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.120, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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