Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society (that is, to legalize the enslavement of some men by others). There is no such thing as "the right to enslave." A nation can do it, just as a man can become a criminal- but neither can do it by right.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.