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The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it

The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.

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

Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them only because 'they necessitate further inroads' upon the capitalist system and are 'unavoidable' as a means of bringing about socialism.

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Mean, Income, Progressive

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

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

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

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War, Liberty, Socialism

Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.

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

Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.

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Acting, Action, Reason
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.85, VM eBooks

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

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Ego, Society, Individual
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.39, VM eBooks

The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income.

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

The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be raised without harm to anybody. They speak of profit without dealing with loss. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities. A profitable enterprise tends to expand; an unprofitable one tends to shrink. The elimination of profit renders production rigid and abolishes the consumer's control.

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Mean, Eye, Loss

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

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Peace, Attitude, War
Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.394, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

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

Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.

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Passion, Mind, Liberty
"Liberalism in Caricature". Review of "The Anti-Capitalist Mentality", The Economist Magazine, April 13, 1957.

Socialist society is a society of officials.

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Socialist, Officials
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.161, VM eBooks

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

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Money, War, Revolution

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

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Ideas, Common Sense, Liberty
Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.83, Ludwig von Mises Institute

The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs.

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Freedom, Law, Essence
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.49, VM eBooks

What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.

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

During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.

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Plato, Years, Ideas
"Marxism Unmasked: From Delusion to Destruction". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1952.

He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions disarrange valuations. Inflamed with passion, man sees the goal as more desirable and the price he has to pay for it as less burdensome than he would in cool deliberation.

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Passion, Men, Emotional
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.23, Lulu Press, Inc

What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation.

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

In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.

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Connections, Administration, Revenue
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.

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

We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely perfect solutions of any problem are out of reach of mortal men. What the operation of a market not sabotaged by the interference of compulsion and coercion can bring about is merely the best solution accessible to the human mind under the given state of technological knowledge and the intellectual abilities of the age's shrewdest men.

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Men, Perfect, Mind

The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership.

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

There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.

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Employment, Tendencies, Labor

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