Hans F. Sennholz

If we cannot return to fiscal integrity because the public prefers profusion and prodigality over balanced budgets, we cannot escape paying the…

— Hans F. Sennholz

The transfer society is forever testing the bounds of patience of taxpayers. Having reached the limit and still facing loud demands for…

— Hans F. Sennholz

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

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

Every individual is a potential gold buyer, although he may not need the gold. It may be added to the store of…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Redistribution divided society into two social classes: the beneficiaries of transfer, who are calling for ever more; and the victims, who submit…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their…

— Hans F. Sennholz

An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles.

— Hans F. Sennholz

Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more…

— Hans F. Sennholz

The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered…

— Hans F. Sennholz

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Since there is no orderly way to liquidate the federal debt, we must brace for a payment crisis.

— Hans F. Sennholz

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

— Hans F. Sennholz

There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the…

— Hans F. Sennholz

When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by…

— Hans F. Sennholz

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Every businessman enjoying customer patronage, whether he be a baker, banker, or barber is conferring a public benefit, raising production, and reducing…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

— Hans F. Sennholz

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

The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and…

— Hans F. Sennholz

The paper standard is self-destructive.

— Hans F. Sennholz