It’s easier to be God than to see God.
It's not what the price of gold is that matters, but rather how much stuff it will buy.
You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years.
There are basically two kinds of tax, the kind the masses can see, and the kind they can't. The inflation tax is of the second kind.
The easiest way to buy silver was to take a paper dollar to the bank and ask for change. So much coinage was disappearing from circulation that the government was forced to remove silver from U. S. coinage beginning in 1965.
On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U. S. citizens to own gold.
Ever since the Federal reserve was born, (in 1913) we have been living under a lie.
The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.
We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.
Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude.
There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.