If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
LUDWIG VON MISESTrue, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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 causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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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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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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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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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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