Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

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

Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insi

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.

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.

Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must not impose controls on others.