I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.

Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.

To those advocates of independent paper moneys who also champion the free market, I would address this simple question: "Why don't you advocate the unlimited freedom of each individual to manufacture dollars?" If dollars are really and properly things-in-themselves, why not let everyone manufacture them as they manufacture wheat and baby food?

Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.