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• The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is…
• The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes…
• Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.…
• Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of…
• There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.
• It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their…
• Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.
• The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the…
• The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof…
• What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.
• Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.
• Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of…

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