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In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice…
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has…
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter…
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the…
If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never…
No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.
All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage…
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other…
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms…
And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder…
The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending…
Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions…

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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency,… — John Burroughs
The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency… — Abraham Lincoln
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept… — Alan Furst
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the… — Andrew Jackson
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and… — Garet Garrett
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only. — John Buchanan Robinson
Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure. — John Buchanan Robinson
When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by… — John Buchanan Robinson
Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry… — Thomas Paine
In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a… — Lysander Spooner
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. — Alan Watts

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