"Originally, Congress provided in 1793 that all foreign coins circulating in the United States be legal tender."

"Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce useful goods and services that they can sell on the market."

"The State’s power to conscript is the power to enslave."

"The important desideratum is freedom of the market; a country or region will often best develop, depending on conditions of resources or the market, by concentrating on one or two items and then exchanging them for other items produced elsewhere."

"The fundamental political question is why do people obey a government. The answer is that they tend to enslave themselves, to let themselves be governed by tyrants."

"The free market is a system of voluntary exchange, and any interference with that exchange is a violation of individual rights."

"Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves at the top of a new hierarchy of power."

"If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will."

"It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright."

"By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own creation, the National Banking System."

"The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose."