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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
Inspirational nature quote by Hans-Peter Dürr about cooperating with natureCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We must not view nature as our enemy, something to be dominated and conquered, but rather learn once again to cooperate with nature. Nature has four and a half billion years of experience. Ours is considerably shorter." Hans-Peter Dürr
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
Murray Rothbard quote about individual liberty as the foundation for moral virtue, civilization, arts, science, and prosperityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity." Murray Rothbard
Noam Chomsky quote about language as a process of free creationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation." Noam Chomsky
Gore Vidal quote about Puritans leaving England for America and forcing others to become PuritansCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did." Gore Vidal
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
Quote image featuring Murray Rothbard on the free market and competitionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible." Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard quote about Federal Reserve money creation and bank depositsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system's creation of "money" in the sense of deposits, is the Fed's power to print legal tender money. But the Fed tries its best not to print cash but rather to "print" or create demand deposits, checking deposits, out of thin air, since its demand deposits constitute the reserves on top of which the commercial banks can pyramid a multiple creation of bank deposits, or "checkbook money."" Murray Rothbard
Henry Ford quote about wealth, money, and powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured." Henry Ford
James M. Buchanan quote about artificial scarcity and wasted resourcesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If you create an artificial scarcity through public policy, artificial rent so to speak - setting up a new import quota or giving out a particular office that is very beneficial - people are going to invest money, time and resources in trying to secure that opportunity. If the value is created independently of the search for it, the search for it is wasted." James M. Buchanan