If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
LUDWIG VON MISESIf you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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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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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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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 mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
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