Ludwig von Mises: "It is true that most of the novels and plays published today are mere trash. Nothing else can be expected when thousands of volumes are written every year. Our age could still some day be called an age of the flowering of literature if only one out of a thousand books published would prove to be equal to the great books of the past." - The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
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| Ludwig von Mises | It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments. Ideologically it belongs in the same class with political constitutions and bills of rights. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 454 | Sound Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | Thus the sound-money principle has two aspects. It is affirmative in approving the markets choice of a commonly used medium of exchange. It is negative in obstructing the governments propensity to meddle with the currency system. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 455 | Sound Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 480 | Sound Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | Sound money still means today what it meant in the nineteenth century: the gold standard. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 480 | Sound Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | Perpetual vigilance on the part of the citizens can achieve what a thousand laws and dozens of alphabetical bureaus with hordes of employees never have and never will achieve: the preservation of a sound currency. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 495 | Sound Money |