Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue... Political control weakens individual… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
We are ever aware that politics is an ugly struggle that determines 'who gets what, when, and how.' It is the favorite… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Modern government has become a universal transfer agency that utilizes the political process for distributing vast measures of income and wealth. It… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
The international monetary order is more precarious by far today than it was in 1929. Then, gold was international money, incorruptible, unmanageable,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
