black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.

Ludwig von Mises

Related Topics

Action Apparatus Coercion Country Cutsom Gold Pencil Policemen Standard

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Act God Important Inflation Most Remember Things
Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Dictator Disguise Socialist
What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Advocate Consumed Greater Income Invest Tax
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Beat Enforcement Essential Government Kill
Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Better Least Mean Order Pretend Socialism Spoiler Thousand Year
Liberty is always freedom from the government.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Always Government Liberty
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.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Accelerate Accumulate Against Available Capital Condition Government Growth Improve Mankind Material Mean Party
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Government Make Poorer Richer
In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Battle Between Force Ideas Latterm Prevail
The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Customer Fundamentals Law Right
Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Ability Appointed Elite Example Neglect Problem Self Supermen Surrender
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Freedom Make Mean Mistake
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.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Ask Essential Freedom Government Imprisoning More Ultimate
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Freedom Mean Mistake Really
The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Approach Distinteretedness Economic Entrepreneur Interventionist Liberty Matter People Scientific Study
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.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Ambition Change Defeat Doctrine Excellent Independent Make Money Party Political Purchase Standard

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes