Ludwig von Mises: "Money, like chocolate on a hot oven, was melting in the pockets of the people." - Economic Policy
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| Ludwig von Mises | The Roman Empire crumbled to dust because it lacked the spirit of liberalism and free enterprise. The policy of interventionism and its political corollary, the Fuhrer principle, decomposed the mighty empire as they will by necessity always disintegrate and destroy any social entity. | Human Action | p. 763; p. 769 | Roman Empire |