If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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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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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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The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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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.
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They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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