Henry Hazlitt Quotes About Gold

Quotes about: Gold

• 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.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Hands, Liberty, Quality

• The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is no historic record of responsible paper money management ... The record taken, as a whole is one of hyperinflation, devaluation and monetary chaos.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Taken, Liberty, Gold

• Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Giving, Political

• From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Loss, Views, Risk

• The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Political, Gold, Merit

• In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling. Instead of automatic currencies based on gold, people are forced to take managed currencies based on guile. Instead of precious metals they hold paper promises whose value falls with every bureaucratic whim. And they are suavely assured that only hopelessly antiquated minds dream of returning to truth and honesty and solvency and gold.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Dream, Honesty, Lying

  "What You Should Know about Inflation".

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