True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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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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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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The 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.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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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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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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