War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

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

To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures, is a giant educational task. The social and economic ideas that gave birth to the transfer system must be discredited and replaced with old values of individual independence and self-reliance. The social philosophy of individual freedom and unhampered private property must again be our guiding light.

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.

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

Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue... Political control weakens individual self-reliance and energy, causes want and poverty and, in the end, breeds tyranny and oppression.

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.