Legislators Quotes by Hans F. Sennholz

Few policies are more calculated to destroy the existing basis of a free society than the debauching of its currency. And few tasks, if…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.

— Hans F. Sennholz

When individual enterprise is free and unhampered, profit-and-loss calculations set precise limits to a businessman's temptations to expand his services... a government valuable they…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

— Hans F. Sennholz

In expectation of his demise, a successful businessman may sell out to his competitors to prepare his estate with readily marketable securities, such as…

— Hans F. Sennholz

The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in…

— Hans F. Sennholz

In a world dependent on international trade and commerce, and staggering under a heavy load of international debt, no policy is more destructive than…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.

— Hans F. Sennholz

...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.

— Hans F. Sennholz

The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause budget deficits…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.

— Hans F. Sennholz

Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true.…

— Hans F. Sennholz