The System Of Capitalism, Of The Market

Everything We Get, Outside Of The Free Gifts Of Nature, Must In Some Way Be Paid For. The World Is Full Of So- Called Economists Who In Turn Are Full Of Schemes For Getting Something For Nothing. They Tell Us That The Government Can Spend And Spend Without Taxing At All; That It Can Continue To Pile Up Debt Without Ever Paying It Off, Because "we Owe It To Ourselves."

When People Who Earn More Than The Average Have Their 'surplus', Or The Greater Part Of It, Seized From Them In Taxes, And When People Who Earn Less Than Average Have The Deficiency , Or The Greater Part Of It, Turned Over To Them In Hand-outs And Doles, The Production Of All Must Sharply Decline; For The Energetic And Able Who Lose Their Incentive To Produce More Than The Average, And The Slothful And Unskilled Lose Their Incentive To Improve Their Condition.

Government Can't Give Us Anything Without Depriving Us Of Something Else.

Give Me The Clear Blue Sky Above My Head, And The Green Turf Beneath My Feet, A Winding Road Before Me, And A Three Hours' March To Dinner - And Then To Thinking!

The First Requisite Of A Sound Monetary System Is That It Put The Least Possible Power Over The Quantity Or Quality Of Money In The Hands Of The Politicians.