Ludwig von Mises Quotes About Gold

Quotes about: Gold

• Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Taken, Magic, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

• The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Men, Numbers

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

• The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. 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

  Country, Order, Government

• Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of our time. Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went hand in hand with liberalism, free trade, capitalism and peace, so is inflationism part and parcel of imperialism, militarism, protectionism, statism and socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophical, Hands, Ideas

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

• As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants, mines and farms, it is one of the foremost tasks of good government to remove all obstacles that hinder the accumulation and investment of new capital.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Gold, Height

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

• The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Independent, Political, Gold

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

• 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

  Party, Independent, Ambition

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.585, Lulu Press, Inc

• Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the result of the steady rise in the per-head quota of capital invested? Do they realize that every measure leading to capital decumulation jeopardizes their prosperity?

  Ludwig von Mises

  Years, Gold, Quota

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

• If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Speak English, Gold, Facts

  "The Gold Standard". Excerpt from chapter 17 of "Human Action, The Scholar's Edition", book by Ludwig von Mises, mises.org. 1949.

• Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Law, Quality

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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