Assured Quote by Henry Hazlitt

The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is no historic…

— Henry Hazlitt

We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency [backed by] gold of which we had none, but for every mark that…

— Adolf Hitler

Monetary reform, if it is to be genuine and successful, must sever money and banking from politics. That's why a modern gold standard must…

— Lawrence Reed

If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant…

— Murray Rothbard

There is a long history of monetary experience. It tells us that government is at heart a counterfeiter and therefore cannot be trusted to…

— Garet Garrett

Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device…

— Elgin Groseclose

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

— Anonymous

The reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't…

— Bernard von NotHaus

The global 'currency wars' are likely here to stay due to the fine line between legitimate monetary balancing and sometimes self-serving trade manipulation. But…

— Dinesh Paliwal

The dreams of "leaving it up to the market" or of returning to a politically neutral gold standard cannot succeed because the nature of…

— Robert Gilpin

The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

— Murray Rothbard

“Nearly every aspect of modern civilization has been flattening down except one: money. Minting money is one of the last jobs left for a…

— Kevin Kelly