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It is impossible to grasp the ...

It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments.

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It is completely in accord wit...

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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If we live our lives as a gift...

If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty. Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams. Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

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Behaviorism proposes to study ...

Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions. But it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms.

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Whether we like it or not, it ...

Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups of scholars and specialists. Economics deals with society's fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.

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In the long run even the most ...

In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrant's feet. Then the oppressed many will rise in rebellion and overthrow their masters.

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Seen from the point of view of...

Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.

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Louis XIV was very frank and s...

Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat.

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Every government intervention ...

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions...

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Under the gold standard gold i...

Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government.

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Private property creates for t...

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.

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A new type of superstition has...

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.

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The advocates of public contro...

The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.

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What mankind needs today is li...

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

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If one regards inflation as an...

If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

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The boom is called good busine...

The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression.

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The boom squanders through mal...

The boom squanders through malinvestment scarce factors of production and reduces the stock available through overconsumption; its alleged blessings are paid for by impoverishment.

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The market system is the basis...

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the FГјhrer principle.

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The 'progressives' who today...

The 'progressives' who today masquerade as 'liberals' may rant against 'fascism'; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the 'progressives,' denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of 'capital.' The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.

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Whoever prefers life to death,...

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

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