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A nation cannot prosper if its members are not fully aware of the fact that what alone can improve their condition s is more and better production. And this can only be brought about by increased saving and capital

A nation cannot prosper if its members are not fully aware of the fact that what alone can improve their condition s is more and better production. And this can only be brought about by increased saving and capital accumulation.

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

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

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

If people do not consume their whole incomes, the non-consumed surplus can be invested, it increases the amount of capital goods available and thereby makes it possible to embark upon projects which could not be executed before.

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

The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.

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

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”

An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.

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Attitude, Fighting, People
Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.112, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

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Men, Years, Two
Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.1, Ludwig von Mises Institute

The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.

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Mean, Increase, Aim
Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.12, Ludwig von Mises Institute

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.

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Philosophy, Men, Ideas
Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

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Slumps, Expansion, Credit
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.486, VM eBooks

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

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Men, Civilization, Facts
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.26, VM eBooks

An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The whole system of interventionism collapses when the fountain is drained off: The Santa Clause principle liquidates itself.

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Philosophy, Forever, Principles

In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

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Unemployment, Bread, Ability
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.286, VM eBooks

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

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

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Inspirational, Mean, Joints
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.210, Lulu Press, Inc

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.

Ludwig von Mises
Lying, Hard Work, Eye
Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.

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

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

Ludwig von Mises
Business, Political, Doe
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics ch. 15 (1949)

The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which the treasury or agencies which it controls have printed the magical words legal tender.

Ludwig von Mises
Men, Agency, Looks

The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.

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

Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.

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

Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present.

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Economic, Reaching, Speculation
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.118, VM eBooks

It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.

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

Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.

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Influence, Patronage, Bigs
Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.4, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part of man. It is created and increased by saving and maintained by the abstention from dissaving.

Ludwig von Mises
Men, Free Gifts, Saving
Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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