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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.

Ludwig von Mises

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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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Civilization Cultural Higher Living Standard
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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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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Avoid Boom Collapse Credit Expansion Final Liberty Mean
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
Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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Account Faire Faliblity Government Laissez Man Moral React Reason Reject Same Weakness
The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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Credit Expansion Final General Impoverishment Outcome
State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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Call Destroy Done Economic Growth Interfere Life Nothing Policy Regulation State
Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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Achievement Capitalism Deliver Good Need Propoganda Themselves
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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Approach Distinteretedness Economic Entrepreneur Interventionist Liberty Matter People Scientific Study
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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Ambition Change Defeat Doctrine Excellent Independent Make Money Party Political Purchase Standard
This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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Abuse Capitalism Destroy Eager Government Most Profit System Yet
They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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Appearance Artificial Boom Collapse Create Depression Expansion Open Soon Way
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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Ability Anticipate Demand Entrepreneur Future Other People Profit Source Stem
The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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