The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the position is reversed.

...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract,... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century.

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.