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It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely because the authorities who control appointments to academic positions, want to know

It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely because the authorities who control appointments to academic positions, want to know nothing of it, and to see the criterion of truth in the approval of a government office.

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Freedom, Thinking, Government
Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.196, Ludwig von Mises Institute

What is needed for a sound expansion of production is additional capital goods, not money or fiduciary media. The credit expansion is built on the sands of banknotes and deposits. It must collapse.

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

Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

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

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

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Social, Function, Goods
Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.11, Ludwig von Mises Institute

In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the soldier more or less abundantly for the loss of time that he suffers from his military-service obligation.

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Military, Loss, Sacrifice

The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

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Socialism, Midway, Capitalism And Socialism
Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.65, Ludwig von Mises Institute

You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.; you know that all men today enjoy a higher standard of living than your ancestors did before the age of capitalism. But how do you know that you are the one out of ten who would have lived in the absence of capitalism? The mere fact that you are living today is proof that capitalism has succeeded, whether or not you consider your own life very valuable.

Ludwig von Mises
Men, Age, Facts

The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

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Cooperation, Individual, Social
Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.44, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived from peaceful cooperation and division of labor are universal.

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Division Of Labor, Peaceful, Society
Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

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

Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to earn as much as they can. But it censures the capitalists and entrepreneurs for their greed.

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

Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

Ludwig von Mises
Errors, Views, Would Be
Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Ludwig von Mises
Liberty, Wrens, Needs

If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.

Ludwig von Mises
Men, Would Be, Branches
Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.

Ludwig von Mises
Competition, Economy, Doom

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

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

Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be ineffective, but when summed from the force of all the area's citizens indeed composes a power no citizen or group can withstand. That force is then rightly but justly to be used against those who violate the foundation pillars of freedom.

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War, Government, Foundation

The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at what prices and to whom to sell. It assigns every worker to his job and fixes his wages. It decrees to whom and on what terms the capitalists must entrust their funds. Market exchange is merely a sham.

Ludwig von Mises
Jobs, History, Ministry

The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The capitalists, the entrepreneurs, and the farmers are the people's mandatories. If they do not obey, if they fail to produce, at the lowest possible cost, what

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People, Giving, Entrepreneur
Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

Ludwig von Mises
Society, Fields, Events

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

Ludwig von Mises
Stupid, Fighting, Evil
Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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