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

— Hans F. Sennholz



[...] if we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

— F.A. Hayek



Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

— Daniel Webster



Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

— Milton Friedman



The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

— H.D. Thoreau



History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.

— Milton Friedman



Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms—spelling it out as it is—as become foreign to the public. So here goes: When government sports a "surplus," this implies that the political pickpockets have stolen more funds than they can possibly dream of spending. The property is not theirs to keep! Conversely, when "deficits" are reported, this means that the kleptomaniacs have not been able to steal sufficient funds to cover their profligacy.

— Deficit disorders, by Ilana Mercer



[...] when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

— Thomas Paine



What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

— Thomas Jefferson



We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

— Aristotle