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We will never have a true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
- — Will Rogers
In a country whose currency is not convertible into gold, inflation leads to its continuous devaluation in terms of foreign currencies.
- — Michael A. Heilperin
The West is not simply better than non-Western cultures, it is vastly, fundamentally better. Hellenic culture is the only truly human civilization, the only one for which human reason, not animal stultification, is the ideal. We must defend the West's superiority, completely and immediately, or we will lose it forever.
- — Greg Swann
Socialism is unrealizable as an economic system because a socialist society would not have any possibility of resorting to economic calculation. This is why it cannot be considered as a system of society's economic organization. It is a means to disintegrate social cooperation and to bring about poverty and chaos.
- — Ludwig von Mises
Genius can only breathe free in an atmosphere of freedom.
- — J.S. Mill
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
- — John Locke
Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
- — Euripides
Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
- — Euripides
The inevitable scarcity of the factors of production, the uncertainty of future conditions for which production has to provide, and the necessity of picking out from the bewildering multitude of technological methods suitable for the attainment of ends already chosen those which obstruct as little as possible the attainment of other ends — i.e., those with which the cost of production is lowest. No allusion to these matters can be found in the writings of Marx and Engels. All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of scribbling, recording, and ciphering.
- — Ludwig von Mises
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
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