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.

The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency museums.

For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest money that survived the ages and will live on long after the political fiats of today have gone the way of all paper.

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

Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more than they do. It is difficult to ascertain their motives; it can be simple envy which consumes many men, or it can be economic ignorance.

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