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.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

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.

...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.

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.

The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.

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