Ludwig von Mises

Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (1881-1973) was an Austrian-born American economist and sociologist. He was a key figure of the "Austrian school" of economics and advocate for classical liberalism.

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government.

The Theory of Money and Credit

[Inflation] is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism.

The Theory of Money and Credit

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.

Terence

The Constitution[‘s] . . . language is ‘we the people;’ not we the white people. Not even we the citizens, not we the privileged class, not we the high, not we the low, but we the people.

Frederick Douglass

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Ulysses S. Grant

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Edgar Allan Poe

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ‘facts.’ They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are only two kinds of people who go into bankruptcy—those who don’t know how to handle money and those who know all too well.

Thomas Sowell

God grants to evil and to evildoers a large measure of freedom—too large, we might think. Even so, history does not slip through his fingers.

Benedict XVI

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don’t already believe it.

Robert Anton Wilson

In every organization there is a considerable accumulation of dead wood in the executive level.

Laurence J. Peter

Organic life . . . developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Bertrand Russell

Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Woodrow Wilson

America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.

Harry S. Truman

It’s funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating.

Jack Handey

The wise avoid extremes, excesses, and complacency.

Lao Tsu

Science doesn’t purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. . . . It’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match.

Isaac Asimov

Justice is the constitution or fundamental law of the moral universe, the law of right, a rule of conduct for man in all his moral relations.

Theodore Parker

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is perverse in his ways.

Holy Bible

Appearance too often takes the place of reality—the stamp of the coin is there, and the glitter of the gold, but, after all, it is but a worthless wash.

William Jennings Bryan

To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.

P.J. O’Rourke

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