The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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