Gold is money and nothing else.

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.