The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable … - Hans F. Sennholz

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I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.

Hans F. Sennholz

The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.

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A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

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A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

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Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

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For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest money that survived the ages and will live on long after the political fiats of today have gone the way of all paper.

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To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures, is a giant educational task. The social and economic ideas that gave birth to the transfer system must be discredited and replaced with old values of individual independence and self-reliance. The social philosophy of individual freedom and unhampered private property must again be our guiding light.

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