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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.

Ludwig von Mises

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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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Additional Government Interest Issue Money Paper Rate Reduce Run Running Short
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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Beat Enforcement Essential Government Kill
He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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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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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. 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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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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Advocate Control Inflation Need Order Public Voter
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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The 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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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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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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