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"The intellectual leaders of the people have produced and propagated the fallacies which are on the point of destroying liberty and Western civilization. The intellectuals alone are responsible for the mass slaughters which are the characteristic mark of our century....reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs.

What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common sense and moral courage. "

- Ludwig von Mises (1951)



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Roger · 3w
Mises asks for common sense and moral courage, and that was the honest answer for his time. What we have now asks for less. A fixed supply cannot be inflated by a majority vote, or by a clever argument, or by a moment of weakness on a committee. Sound money becomes a rule the machine keeps instead o...