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• Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.

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  Government, Ideas, Numbers

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

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• History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

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  Money, War, Order

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

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• True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

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  Running, Government, Issues

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

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• People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests.

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  Division Of Labor, People, Love One Another

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.209, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

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  Spiritual, Business, Intellectual

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

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• In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.

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  Party, Business Deals, Games

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

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• People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.

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  Men, Rights, Division Of Labor

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.209, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior.

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  Brother, Children, Teaching

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• The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

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  Development, Consumers, Capitalism

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• Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee.

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  Progress, Rules And Regulations, Regulation

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• Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat.

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  Kings, Struggle, Humble

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• A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.

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  Men, Today, Poverty

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• Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

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  Peace, Father, War

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

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  Freedom, Mean, People

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

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• Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

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  Mean, Organization, Two

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• Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

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  Learning, School, Knowledge

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.263, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• He who accepts life for what it is and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by it does not need to seek refuge for his crushed self-confidence in the solace of a 'saving lie'. If the longed-for success is not forthcoming, if the vicissitudes of fate destroy in the twinkling of an eye what had to be painstakingly built up by years of hard work, then he simply multiplies his exertions. He can look disaster in the eye without despairing.

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  Lying, Hard Work, Eye

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

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• Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.

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  Increase, Fortune, Grows

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.342, VM eBooks

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• How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

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  Art, Government, World

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.418, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

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  Civilization, Culture, Standards

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

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  Ideas, Political, Vices

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

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• Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

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  Freedom, Business, Needs

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• The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.

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  Progress, Economic History, Trends

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• The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

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  Public Opinion, Favors, Socialism

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• Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest of mankind follows them little by little.

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  Men, Littles, Human Condition

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