The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the … - Henry Hazlitt

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All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object. . . I mean, that's all one wants to do. One has nothing to say about the world, or society, or morals or politics or anything else. One just wants to get the damn thing done, you know? Kafka had it right when he said that the artist is the man who has nothing to say. It's true. You get the thing done, but you don't actually have anything to communicate, apart from the object itself.

Henry Hazlitt

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

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