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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

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Real, Boss, Economy
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.20, VM eBooks

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

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

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

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Achievement, Needs, Speak
Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Money, method, and the market process: essays”, Kluwer Academic Pub

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.

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

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

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Sound, Needs, Today

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

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Citizens, Want, Fellows
Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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.

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

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

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Decline, Difficult, Indivisible
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.398, Lulu Press, Inc

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

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

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

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

It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.

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

The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.

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Country, Order, Government

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

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Country, Men, Numbers
Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.

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Giving, Democracy, Pennies
Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.12, Ludwig von Mises Institute

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

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War, Competition, Battle
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.285, VM eBooks

There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.

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

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

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Thinking, Firsts, Action
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.86, VM eBooks

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

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

The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.

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Causes, Credit, Four

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!

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

The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.

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People, Want, Dictator
Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.15, Ludwig von Mises Institute

The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas, all they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems. The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.

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Philosophy, Liars, Blessing

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

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Issues, Government, Liberty
Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.15, Ludwig von Mises Institute

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

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World, Increase, Purchasing Power
Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.66, Ludwig von Mises Institute

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.

Ludwig von Mises
Struggle, Men, Survival

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