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.
LUDWIG VON MISESLiberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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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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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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.
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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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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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