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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

— Seneca



We will never have a true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

— Will Rogers



No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.

— Adam Smith



In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. [...] This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.

— Alan Greenspan



They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

— Benjamin Franklin



Every individual is a potential gold buyer, although he may not need the gold. It may be added to the store of personal wealth, and passed from generation to generation as an object of family wealth. There is no other economic good as marketable as gold.

— Hans F. Sennholz



Whoever puts his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy.

— Pierre Proudhon



Genius can only breathe free in an atmosphere of freedom.

— J.S. Mill



They have the usual socialist disease: they have run out of other people’s money.

— Margaret Thatcher



Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

— Mark Twain