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• Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

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  Mean, Suffering, Liberty

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• Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

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  Men, Alternatives, Politics

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

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• Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

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  Numbers, People, World

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.1076, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production

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  Mean, Free Press, Productions

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• If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

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  Government, Evil, Balance

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.73, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

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  Peace, War, Liberty

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

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• It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

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  Freedom, Struggle, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.350, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

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  Air, Needs, Genius

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.108, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society.

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  Jobs, Government, People

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• All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

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  Fighting, People, Liberty

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

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• The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

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  Civilization, America, Essentials

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

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• If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

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  Democracy, Receiving, Salary

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.

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  Inflation, Catastrophe

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

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• The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men aim at, and the choice of the means employed for the attainment of these ends.

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  Life, Mean, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.49, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

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  Hate, Men, Average

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

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• Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.

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  Management, Socialism, Prove

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

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• The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

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  Mistake, Mean, Facts

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• What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

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  Government, Economic, Monetary System

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

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• Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

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  Bigs, Mass, Big Business

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• The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction. The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.

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  People, Entrepreneur, Want

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

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  Freedom, Mean, Government

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

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• To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.

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  Taken, Years, Civilization

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• The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.

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  Men, Ideas, Two

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.1075, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.

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  Progress, Way, Steps

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

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• Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

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  Mean, Progressive Taxation, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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