The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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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.
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