Scratch An Egalitarian, And You Will Inevitably

The Freedom To Speak Is Meaningless Without The Corollary Freedom To Keep Silent.

I See No Other Conceivable Strategy For The Achievement Of Liberty Than Political Action. Religious Or Philosophical Conversion Of Each Man And Woman Is Simply Not Going To Work; That Strategy Ignores The Problem Of Power, The Fact That Millions Of People Have A Vested Interest In Statism And Are Not Likely To Give It Up.... Education In Liberty Is Of Course Vital, But It Is Not Enough; Action Must Also Be Taken To Roll Back The State.

Libertarians Regard The State As The Supreme, The Eternal, The Best Organized Aggressor Against The Persons And Property Of The Mass Of The Public. All States Everywhere, Whether Democratic, Dictatorial, Or Monarchical, Whether Red, White, Blue Or Brown.

Money Is Different From All Other Commodities: Other Things Being Equal, More Shoes, Or More Discoveries Of Oil Or Copper Benefit Society, Since They Help Alleviate Natural Scarcity. But Once A Commodity Is Established As A Money On The Market, No More Money At All Is Needed. Since The Only Use Of Money Is For Exchange And Reckoning, More Dollars Or Pounds Or Marks In Circulation Cannot Confer A Social Benefit: They Will Simply Dilute The Exchange Value Of Every Existing Dollar Or Pound Or Mark.

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.