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Epiktet quote about learning, reflection, and becoming a more thoughtful person through booksCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Epiktet
Quote by Antony Cyril Sutton about herd instinct and gold as asset of last resortCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"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." Antony Cyril Sutton
Murray Rothbard quote about paper money and monetary freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To those advocates of independent paper moneys who also champion the free market, I would address this simple question: "Why don't you advocate the unlimited freedom of each individual to manufacture dollars?" If dollars are really and properly things-in-themselves, why not let everyone manufacture them as they manufacture wheat and baby food?" Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard quote image about human nature and state powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its own particular argument in his favor. For if man is such a mixture, then the best societal framework is surely one in which evil is discouraged and the good encouraged. The libertarian maintains that the existence of the State apparatus provides a ready, swift channel for the exercise of evil, since the rulers of the State are thereby legitimated and can wield compulsion in ways that no one else is permitted to do." Murray Rothbard
Ludwig von Mises quote about economic policy and state interventionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness." Ludwig von Mises
Quote image featuring Pierre-Joseph Proudhon on the relationship between property and theftCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?" Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Quote about the Rothschild brothers' important financial transactions in the 19th century by G. Edward GriffinCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Naples, Portugal, Brazil, various German states and smaller countries. They were the personal bankers of many of the crowned heads of Europe. They made large investments, through agents, in markets as distant as the United States, India, Cuba and Australia." G. Edward Griffin
Murray Rothbard quote about the State and private servicesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of the rights of person and property-can be and have been supplied far more efficiently and certainly more morally by private persons. The State is in no sense required by the nature of man; quite the contrary." Murray Rothbard