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Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.
Hans F. Sennholz
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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.
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A monetary order created and managed by politicians and officials is bound to disappoint.
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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.
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Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.
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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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To live beyond your means today is to live below them tomorrow.
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Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not.
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Few policies are more calculated to destroy the existing basis of a free society than the debauching of its currency. And few tasks, if any, are more important to the champion of freedom than creation of a sound monetary system.
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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.
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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.
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No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.
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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.
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Modern government has become a universal transfer agency that utilizes the political process for distributing vast measures of income and wealth. It preys on millions of victims in order to allocate valuable goods and services to its beneficiaries.
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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.
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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.
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