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Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect — better because they alone give promise of final success.

— Ludwig von Mises Liberalism (1927)

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Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.

The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate.

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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

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Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.

Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War (1944)

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