"Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places."

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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