Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is any feasible alternative. There is no need for such arbitrary power... Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men, [so] that mistakes - excusable or not - can have such far reaching effects, is a bad system. It is a bad system to believers in freedom just because it gives a few men such power without any effective check by the body politic - this is the key political argument against an independent central bank.
A free mind and a free market are corollaries.
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be tomorrow.
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.
Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.
The Reagan years showed us that expanding economic freedom should be the North Star - the guiding light - of U.S. policy, because it is the best way to achieve sustained and broad-based prosperity for all.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: