Money, Gold"A bank is a place that will lend you money only if you can prove you do not need it"
"The desire of gold is not for gold. "So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold, makes the rules" "The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor" "Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants - but debt is the money of slaves." "Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. It had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium" "If the (manipulated) gold price is ever liberated, then govt.'s & central banks are going to lose power. They will fight to the end for this power. They may shut the markets down, outlaw certain financial instruments, outlaw possession of gold, outlaw cash, throw people in jail as "terrorists" just because they want out of the financial system. We may end up with a totalitarian system in the west when the metal runs out." "No gold digging for me... I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday." "I think we are fairly close to a systemic breakdown and if that occurs, the price changes in all asset classes are going to be extreme. Gold & Silver bullion are arguably the cheapest assets on the planet today and remain historic safe havens, even if the (deluded) in our society fail to realize that fact at the present time." "The risk of not owning gold is greater than the risk of owning gold." "Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game." "All previous attempts to base money solely on intangibles such as credit or government edict or fiat have ended in inflationary panic and disaster" "Gold and silver are always in demand, regardless of clime, century, or government in power. But public demand for paper money and debt instruments depends on the ultimate confidence - or lack thereof - of the public in the viability of the issuing government." "With money in your pocket, you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too." "Investment bankers do much of their business underwriting government bonds. Therefore, they have a vested interest in promoting deficits and in forcing taxpayers to redeem government debt." "The threat of gold redeemability imposes a constant check and limit on inflationary issues of government paper. If the government can remove the threat, remove the backing, it can expand power and inflate without cease. And so it begins to emit propaganda, and seduce us." "It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same." "Gold will be around, gold will be money when the dollar, the euro, the yuan, and the ringgit are mere memories" "Gold always does what it should do... it just never does it when we think it should." "The gold standard, in one form or another, will again prevail long after the present rash of national currencies is forgotten or remembered only in museums" "The gold standard makes money's purchasing power independent of the changing ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence. "Confiscation all comes down to this: the government makes the rules, changes the rules, and enforces the rules (or doesn't). Though it lacks the moral right, it can create legal authority. Though it lacks the constitutional empowerment, it can turn a blind eye to the Constitution... The Constitution did not stop the government from taking people's gold in 1933. If they again attempt a confiscation, there is no way to know in what form, and with what exceptions" "Money can't buy happiness but it will sure get you a better class of memories" "The two best ways to attain financial privacy are to own gold and to be owed by someone trustworthy" "Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?" "Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money" "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." "Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments & their currencies bets against 6000 years of recorded human history" "The risk (of the paper markets) is that something is going to blow up... we will talk again at $3000 gold and they are still going to say gold is worthless" "If there ever was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which the government and the media urge you to do that area is the purchasing of gold. Start buying gold now, regardless of the price. By acting now, you will not have to react when it is too late... too late will be when the majority of the public finally figures out what is happening to (paper assets) and frantically tries to get aboard. Remember, if you are one of the ones holding paper in the end, you will have given away your products and services for nothing" "The Chinese do not want to push Gold prices up too high too fast. They do not want to say openly they use Gold as a hedge against the Dollar system, instead suggesting that gold is only a small part of their reserves. Very cleverly played while they plan for the next financial phase where Gold plays a more dominant part." "While the depreciation of money is a certainty, moral courage and intellectual capacity are currencies that never fail to appreciate in value." "The degree of miscommunication regarding what's been agreed upon in a business deal tends to increase in direct proportion to the amount of money involved." "The definition of a long-term investment is a short-term investment that went sour." "With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments in history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people" "All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant battle to drive down the price of gold - but in the absence of any fundamental change in the nation's monetary, fiscal, and economic direction, simply regard any major retreat in the price of gold as an unexpected buying opportunity" "All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy" "The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice" "Being able to acquire cheaper gold given the state of the world today is like being given discounts on life-rafts on the Titanic" "Gold and Silver have always had value, never gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?" "Because gold is honest money, it is disliked by dishonest men." "A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." "And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." "A man with money is no match for a man on a mission" "Men who do things without being told draw the most wages." "Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit" "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." "A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend" "Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort." "Happiness can't buy money" "Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game." "Money is the best deodorant." If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. "Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." "It's money. I remember it from when I was single" "I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money." "I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money." "When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world." "Gold is the immortal currency." "Gold is not money due to any man-made laws. Gold is money despite man-made laws, and is a product of the voluntary marketplace" "The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word is as good as gold." "Where gold speaks, every tongue is silent." "Pure gold does not rust. Only alloys do so. You may have golden dreams. But if you go in the company of toxic people, you become "a gold alloy" and what that means is that you can rust at any time." "Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, for that without it were else a miserable affair." "I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit." "You'd rather own gold; not the miner" "Paper Money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton because Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can" "An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense....that gold and economic freedom are inseparable" "In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value" "Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government." "The Gold Standard is a device for freedom from elite exploit, its installment a noble deed, its implementation the manifestation of an equitable system. Furthermore, a Gold Standard will be an efficient force to the global economy which enables strong capital formation, effective saving, and fair trade." "I believe that coming up we are going to see a fourth devaluation of the dollar against gold....the US Treasury (if they still have the gold claimed) will overnight have a vastly greater supply of wealth compared with its debt, putting its finances in a much healthier state. How high might the US re-set the official price of gold? You pick a number — $5,000, $10,000 or $50,000....high enough so that the price of gold won't have to be re-set again in a hurry." "Gold is unique among assets, in that it is not issued by any government or central bank, which means that its value is not influenced by political decisions or the solvency of one institution or another." "Real gold does not fear examination or the furnace." "Gold has worked down from Alexander's time. When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory." "The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race." "Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort." "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value — zero" "The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place" "Debt is your enemy. Get rid of it. Get off margin... the basis of this trouble looks to be a type of debt and currency, imagine the mass psychology of investors when trouble gets more obvious than it is now... My guess is they are going to look for safe havens to move their money... what they call temporary safe haven investing... there is nowhere else to go but gold and silver. That is the truth. Everything else is in danger... gold and silver are cheap... drink upstream from the herd, and then wait for the stampede into the ultimate safest currency, which is gold. Some cash, gold and silver should be considered as urgent protection." "If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments." "Bad money drives out good money" "Money won't necessarily create success, the freedom to make it will." "If you want to be wealthy, live below your means" "The best investments are often those that look dead wrong when they are made" "The worst thing that can happen to an investor is to make money on his first trade; he thinks investing is easy" "There's nothing wrong with cash; it gives you time to think" Money can't buy happiness, but it keeps the kids in touch! "It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." "I make more money selling advice than following it" "To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine" "Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway" "Nobody spends someone else's money as carefully as he spends his own" "Gold is money. Everything else is credit." "No warning can save a person determined to grow suddenly rich" "If past history was all there is to the investment game, the richest people would be librarians" "Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory" "Gold would have value if for no other reason than that it enables a citizen to fashion his financial escape from the state." "When the duped talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them gold bugs. Why? I don't call equity bugs cockroaches" "Gold is a great hedge against politicians." "Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple!" "Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie. Gold tells the truth." "Get your money out of the country before your country gets your money out of you" "If printing money helped the economy, then counterfeiting should be legal" "Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink." "Inflation: When nobody has enough money because everybody has too much" "The only currency still used as a store of value after 5000 years is gold" "Every piece of gold jewelry or coin ever made still has value; can you say the same thing about stocks or bonds?" "You never lose money by taking a profit" "Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for" "Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the issue" "Bonds are guaranteed certificates of confiscation" "Its not whether you are right or wrong, but how much money you make when you are right, and how much you lose when you are wrong" "Panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works." "Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria; (buy on maximum pessimism, sell on maximum optimism)" "The four most dangerous words in the world of investing are: This time it's different" "When you feel like bragging, it is probably time to sell" "The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never, ever, be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you're working with is also making money. That's life!" "Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money — only for wanting to keep your own money." "We can't constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who make a lot of money taking those risks." "The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is no historic record of responsible paper money management....only hyperinflation, devaluation and monetary chaos." "We can hardly be surprised when countless special interests fight for the money. The only true solution to the campaign money problem is a return to a proper constitutional government that does not control the economy. Big government and big campaign money go hand-in-hand." "I can remember way back when a liberal was generous with his own money" "I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you've earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else's money." "It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system. For if they did, there would be a revolution by morning" "We need gold because it cannot be printed by Central Bank bureaucrats to repeatedly bail out overleveraged banks, overindebted governments, and zombie politically connected companies while sticking the inflation and monetary bill to everyone else" "Central Banking is welfare for billionaires" "If you have a gun, you can rob a bank. But if you have a bank, you can rob everyone." "The U.S. Dollar has been defended by military means for the last generation. Weaker adversaries to the US$ have been branded terrorists and rogue nations." "Using force to compel people to accept money or debt without real value can only work in the short run. It ultimately leads to economic dislocation, both domestic & international, and always ends with a price to be paid." "Modern slaves are not in chains, they are in debt." "While people rush into crypto-currencies, they need to realize that crypto-currencies are not crypto-money yet. Once hard asset backed crypto-money is issued, it will be backed primarily by precious metals, structured on the blockchain technology. Crypto-money will wipe the floor with crypto-currencies and $billions will be lost in the process." "With Government power and bankster privileges, many "markets" today are not. They are 'guided'. For those that still trade relatively free, in this age of communications and computers, most all is known both fundamentally and technically, including foreseen changes plus risk of unforeseen 'black swans'. That's why the market price is already 'correct'. And that's why forecasting isn't about predicting the market; it's about marketing the prediction" "Debt has been growing exponentially everywhere. Debt is backed with debt, based on debt, dependent on debt, and leveraged with more debt. It is even possible to buy a bond (debt) on margin (with borrowed money). The time is now fast approaching when all debt will be defaulted on (a chain reaction that paper currencies will not survive)." "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws." "It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.... Let me give you a tip on men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the...bell of an approaching looter." —Ayn Rand
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Timeless WisdomGovernment vs. Freedom"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety" "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." "Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." "The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state." "Government is a nonessential business." "Politicians will never let a serious crisis go to waste. They love crises because they will always present the opportunity to do things they never believed they could do legally before." "Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities also had the power to make you commit atrocities" "Been practicing mask civil disobedience since 2020" "Quarantine is when you restrict the movement of sick people. Tyranny is when you restrict the movement of healthy people." The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. ... The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster." "Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure." "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery" "I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace, than to risk peace in pursuit of politics" "The War is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous" "The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission." "So if we lie to the government, it's a felony. If the government lies to us, it's just politics?" "Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. If voting made any difference, they would not let us do it." "A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well." "Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed" "Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also" "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery" "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then applying the wrong remedies" "Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." "If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all" "I heartily accept the motto, that government is best which governs least" "Politicians are interested in people. Not that it is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." "Lions don't care about the opinions of sheep." "The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest." "Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries" "When buying and selling are controlled by legislators, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators" "The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology." "If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you are a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist" "A liberal's paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities; and only Law Enforcement has guns. Such a place does exist. It's called prison." "BureaucRat is an international disease, its infestation respects no national boundaries, no particular ethnicity, no particular political 'ism'. There is no cure. You can choose to live with the disease by continually detoxifying your body and upgrading your immune system, or you can choose to outsmart & outflank the disease by staying a step ahead and maintaining a very low profile" "Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist." "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." "America does not need to see the tax return of a multi-millionaire who became a public servant. America needs to see the tax returns of those who became multi-millionaires while being public servants." "In America, they call it 'lobbying'— Everywhere else in the world, they call it, "Bribery & Corruption." "In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations (and speaker fees)." "Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions." "Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class." "In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you." "The superficial distinctions of Socialism, Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power." "The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting." "Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept" "Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized" "People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation, and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We'll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name of protecting us." "War has all the characteristics of a socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism and intended results and blindness to unintended secondary results"
"The basic difference between 'Conservatives' and 'Liberals' is that conservatives see the state as a tool to use in supporting the power of individuals while liberals see individuals as tools to use in supporting the empowerment of the State. They are two branches of the same premise. And they share the delusion that all that is needed is that the government be in the hands of more nobler leaders and bureaucrats.
"America is a corpse being consumed by maggots. Socialists are rooting for the maggots. Conservatives are rooting for the corpse." "The government has gone from robbing Peter to pay Paul, to robbing our economic future to stimulate Paul." "Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the law least interferes with private affairs; where the government is least felt; where the individual has the greatest scope, and free opinion the greatest influence; where the administrative powers are fewest and simplest; where taxes are lightest and most nearly equal" "Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, envy, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government'. It is a place that attracts the worst breed of men and women" "There are always losers when society evolves. In the free market, these losers are expected and encouraged to retrain and find new ways to survive and thrive. Government losers never evolve for the better; their solution to failure is to demand more funding." "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him" "Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves." "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who would pervert the Constitution." "For a century and a half American political life has been the exclusive preserve of the duopoly of Democrats and Republicans, also known as the Evil Party and the Stupid Party. (If something is both Evil and Stupid, we call that 'Bipartisan.')" "None are so hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free" "It is difficult to free fools from chains they revere" "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still" "I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them." "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." "You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control." "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." "You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom." "Some people demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." "There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears so to speak... a painless concentration camp... having their liberties taken away... but will rather enjoy it because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or such enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution" "It is sometimes argued that one of the benefits of legalizing addictive drugs is that they could be taxed, and the government revenues enhanced. From this perspective, this would be the only valid case against legalization." "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it." "When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free." "We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another." "We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed." "I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." The right most valued by all men is the right to be left alone "Bad government drives out good business" (the political corollary to Gresham's Law) No man's life,liberty,or property are safe while the legislature is in session "Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." "We hang petty thieves, and appoint the great ones to public office." "Government is the only institution that can lose money year after year, and not go out of business. In fact, the more it loses, the bigger it gets" "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." "Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel." "Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like Nascar drivers, then we know who owns them" "The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not commit adultery," and "Thou shalt not lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment." "Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class— the people who run things. Those corrupt bureaucrats and social engineers who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up." "If voting changed anything, it would be illegal." "Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong." "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule" "If you're a large corporation, there's nothing better than guaranteed profits; and there's no better way to guarantee profits than by going into business with the one entity that can do this: government. On the other hand, if you are an ambitious and greedy politician, what better way to earn a fortune while ostensibly engaging in "public service" than by lining the pockets of big corporations, which will then line your pockets in return... Extraordinary fees for speeches... Donations to a Foundation that you control... Cushy corporate jobs or consulting fees after leaving government." "A leader is best when people barely know he exists; when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." "It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our Founding Fathers used in the struggle for independence" "If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't." "Politics is just show business for ugly people." "Mice die in mouse traps because they do not understand why the cheese is free" "You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street, "The difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector is that the taxidermist takes only your skin" "Licensing is when the Government takes away your right to do something and sells it back to you" "The American police state is a multi-billion-dollar boondoggle meant to keep the property and the resources of the American people flowing into corrupt government agencies and their corporate partners" "No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!" "Liberals and conservatives accuse libertarians of being utopian dreamers. And yet the liberals and conservatives continually dream up these fantastic government programs that somehow are going to work better than all the failed government programs of the past." "Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good." "The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly." "No Society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce." "There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob." "A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject, than what he thinks about his audience" "War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself." "And so we see that government is both protector and predator. It starts by protecting one group against another, and ends by protecting itself from everybody." "The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens." "Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex." "The State is an institution run by gangs of murderers, plunderers, and thieves, surrounded by willing executioners, sycophants, crooks, liars, clowns, charlatans, dupes, and useful idiots— an institution that (corrupts or destroys) everything it touches" "A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands— even for beneficial purposes— will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished." "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task." "It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking." "When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path" "Businesses that make money by collecting, exploiting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as 'surveillance companies.' Their rebranding as 'social media' is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense. They are accomplices, not fellow victims of the Deep State." "The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter" "The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living." "The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government." "A government that is big enough to give you all you want, is big enough to take it all away" "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." "The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us." "It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts." "Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race" "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else" "I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts" "The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences" "Government grows by solving the problems government creates" "For every action there is an equal but opposite government program" "No matter how much more money the State spends, it is never enough" "The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes." "The American Republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money." "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury" "Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting what to have for dinner" "I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." "This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it." "I want a government small enough to fit inside the constitution" "The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say "See, if it weren't for government, you wouldn't be able to walk" "Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone" "The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short term misfortune into a career choice" "Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free." "I have a question, a question for the President (Obama): Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign?" "A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth" "Americans are so enamored of equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom." "For too long, the American people have obeyed government dictates, no matter now unjust. We have paid its taxes, penalties and fines, no matter how outrageous. We have tolerated its indignities, insults and abuses, no matter how egregious. We have turned a blind eye to its indiscretions and incompetence, no matter how imprudent. We have held our silence in the face of its lawlessness, licentiousness and corruption, no matter how illicit." "The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency: the second is war. Both bring temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." "When one gets in bed with the government, one must expect the diseases it spreads" "The problem is that democracy is not freedom....majoritarianism is incompatible with real freedom. Our Founding Fathers clearly understood this." The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy." "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." "When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny." "I see...a crisis approaching that...causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed." "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too." "There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation... One is by sword... another is by debt." "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy" "The world politics is derived from the words "poly", meaning many, and "ticks", meaning blood sucking parasites. "We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control." "Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue... Political control weakens individual self-reliance and energy, causes want and poverty and, in the end, breeds tyranny and oppression." "The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be." "The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites." "The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom." "The paradigm shift to a truly free, stateless society is as radical as the idea of a round Earth was in the Middle Ages. Getting that the Earth did not fall off at some edge allowed us to literally expand our horizons and travel the globe. Getting that the notion that anyone should rule anyone else is the most dangerous, destructive idea in history will allow us to unleash the creativity, compassion, prosperity and love that is the essence of being human." "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." "Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure." "It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen." "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." "The whole election cycle is a carnival act... it caters to the most venal instincts of the public. It is an example of the deep cynicism among elites who, like all other con artists, privately mock us for our gullibility and naivety... None of the elected... have the power (and they know it) to challenge the corporate disemboweling of the country" "Politicians are dividing Americans into two classes — those who work for a living and those who vote for a living." "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." "Socialists think we should all be equal at the finish line. Libertarians think we all should be equal at the starting line. Politicians don't care, as long as they get their cut." "Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, or other people's future." "When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before." "Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize an undercover dictatorship... The Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom." "The bottom line is that if politicians weren't in the business of granting favors and exacting tribute, every single issue surrounding campaign finance reform would be irrelevant. After all, why would anyone spend money for influence, access, favors and tribute if the only thing that politicians do is to live up to their oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution?" "What this country needs is more unemployed politicians." "The decline from democracy to tyranny is both a natural and inevitable one......as the result of the electorate accepting the loss of freedom in trade for largesse from their government. This process may be fascism, socialism, communism or a basket of "isms," but tyranny is the inevitable endgame of democracy. The concept of government is that the people grant to a small group of individuals the ability to establish and maintain controls over them. The inherent flaw in such a concept is that any government will invariably and continually expand upon its controls, resulting in the ever-diminishing freedom of those who granted them the power." "We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it." "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the Party is always right." "Be thankful we are not getting all the government we pay for" "There are men running governments who should not be allowed to play with matches" "The taxpayers are sending Congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back" "The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office." "It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master." "There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism -- by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide." "A caged canary is safe, but not free" "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws." —Ayn Rand
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