If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
LUDWIG VON MISESDepression is the aftermath of 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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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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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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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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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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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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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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