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2008 October 17
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"Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.
Freedom of money and freedom of banking... are the principles that must guide our steps." |
"We have stricken the shackles from 4,000,000 human beings
and brought all labourers to a common level,
but not so much by the elevation of former slaves
as by reducing the whole working population,
white and black, to a condition of serfdom.
While boasting of our noble deeds,
we are careful to conceal the ugly fact
that by our iniquitous money system
we have manipulated a system of oppression which,
though more refined, is no less cruel than
the old system of chattel slavery." |
"If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer." |
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2008 October 16
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"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism
as it is a merge of state and corporate power." |
“Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.” |
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2008 October 15
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"Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash." |
"Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens." |
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"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul
can always depend on the support of Paul." |
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2008 October 14
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"Government cannot make man richer,
but it can make him poorer." |
"Do we desire to be cradled, and then carried throughout life
to our graves by this partisan propelled bureaucratic monstrosity? ...
as individuals of sovereign dignity, are we now so terrified,
bewildered, and impotent that our main purpose is to seek asylum from
the potential hazards of freedom? Have we no faith in our natural
strengths and abilities?" |
"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else." |
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2008 October 13
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"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." |
"Every government interference in the economy
consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force,
to some men at the expense of others." |
"No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order,
stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death,
I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs
(which alas! is all too inadequate)." |
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