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“The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Peace #War #Government
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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”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Government #Law #Long
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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.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Struggle #Political #Police
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“Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Men #Government #Liberty
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“The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Peace #War #Roots
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“Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#War #Fighting #Wish
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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.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Men #Alternatives #Politics
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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.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Offering #Law #Giving
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“Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Government #Liberty #Unemployment
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“Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#School #Men #Creative
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“A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Men #Two #Doe
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“Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them the power to force all those engaged in production to comply with their orders. It forces all those engaged in production to the utmost exertion in the service of the consumers. It makes competition work. He who best serves the consumers profits most and accumulates riches.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Order #Giving #Competition
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“The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all privileges hurt the interests of the rest of the nation or at least a great part of it.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Hurt #Liberty #Privilege
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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.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Decline #Difficult
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“Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required (think stimulus) 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.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Jobs #Thinking #Government
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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.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Mean #Organization #Two
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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.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Government #Laissez Faire #Weakness
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“Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Achievement #Needs #Speak
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“Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Beautiful #Artist #Past
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“There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Government #Law #Parent
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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.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Freedom #Government #Law
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“Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Peace #War #Want
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“A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Failing #Duty #Ability
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“The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Philosophy #War #Protectionism
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“Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Liberty #Agree #Meaningless
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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.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Father #War #Essence
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“All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Want #Failing #Humans
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“Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Liberty #Libertarian #Laissez Faire
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“It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Tasks #Generations #Provoking
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“Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
#Mean #Entrepreneur #Doe
