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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.

Ludwig von Mises

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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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Abandonment Alternative Come Currency Expansion Involved Sooner Voluntary Whether
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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Freedom Mean Mistake Really
The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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According Dictator Other Own People Plan Planner Potential Power Want Deprive
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
German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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Against Change Coin Country Human Human Nature Nature Philosophy Political Socialism
The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Afraid Driven Liar Pronouncement Suppress
The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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Credit Expansion Final General Impoverishment Outcome
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
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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Creative Genius Innovator Men School Taught
He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Best Highest Make Profit Public Service
The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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Causes Crash Credit Depression Four Panic Summed
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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Adversaries Average Call Name Stratagem Suspicion Unfortunately
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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Accumulate Capital Economic Entrepreneur Progress Saver Turn
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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Call Consequences Government Intervention Marketplace Unintended
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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Act God Important Inflation Most Remember Things
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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