If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society - the areas of crisis and failure - we find in each and every case a “red thread” marking and uniting them all: the thread of government. In every one of these cases, government either has totally run or heavily influenced the activity.

Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution.

The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive resources of society - far from satisfying the wants of consumers - are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. The consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

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