1. “The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.”
2. “Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.”
3. “Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.”
4. “All government operation is wasteful, inefficient and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.”
5. “Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution.”
6. “The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.”
7. “Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.”
8. “The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.”
9. “The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.”
10. “It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.”
11. “It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.”
12. “The more the government intervenes to delay the market’s adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be the road to complete recovery.”
13. “Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammelled capitalism.”
14. “Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.”
15. “It is clearly to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling.”
16. “Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.”
17. “The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.”
18. “You don’t need a treaty to have free trade.”
19. “The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.”
20. “The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.”
21. “The natural tendency of the state is inflation.”
22. “Cops must be unleashed and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.”
23. “I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.”
24. “Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.”
25. “Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.”
26. “Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.”
27. “All government wars are unjust.”
28. “Never have the world’s moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots.”
29. “Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.”
30. “Money is general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such goods on the market.”
