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  • The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register.

    Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”
  • The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency museums.

    Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”
  • When individual enterprise is free and unhampered, profit-and-loss calculations set precise limits to a businessman's temptations to expand his services... a government valuable they may be, have no market price and, therefore, cannot be subjected to profit-and-loss accounting.

  • To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures, is a giant educational task. The social and economic ideas that gave birth to the transfer system must be discredited and replaced with old values of individual independence and self-reliance. The social philosophy of individual freedom and unhampered private property must again be our guiding light.

    Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”
  • Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

  • ...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.

    Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”
  • Redistribution divided society into two social classes: the beneficiaries of transfer, who are calling for ever more; and the victims, who submit unwillingly. It could hardly fail to injure social peace and harmony.

  • The paper standard is self-destructive.

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  • In expectation of his demise, a successful businessman may sell out to his competitors to prepare his estate with readily marketable securities, such as U.S. Treasury bonds. The confiscatory death tax eliminates many family enterprises and promotes the growth of giant corporations.

  • Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insi

  • Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

  • No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.

  • When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by human interests, desires, beliefs, notions, and prejudices, just like other people. They have neither superhuman wisdom nor extraordinary virtue.

  • The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause budget deficits to soar. The U.S. dollar, which has become a mere corollary of government finance, is likely to survive the soaring deficits.

  • Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.

  • Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

  • War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

  • Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue... Political control weakens individual self-reliance and energy, causes want and poverty and, in the end, breeds tyranny and oppression.

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  • A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

  • We are ever aware that politics is an ugly struggle that determines 'who gets what, when, and how.' It is the favorite occupation of people who serve special interests, who have axes to grind, and public careers to advance. It is a game in which benefits are bestowed according to political skill and connection, rather than merit.

  • An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles.

  • Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation and taxation tend to hamper economic activity, inhibit productivity, and depress levels of living.

  • The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

    Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”
  • Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.

  • To live beyond your means today is to live below them tomorrow.

  • Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

  • Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

  • Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must not impose controls on others.

  • A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

  • The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.

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