Quote by Alan Greenspan
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one is

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. – Alan Greenspan

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Ive been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and Ive never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And Im not sure where it comes from, but I suspect its got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive. – Alan Greenspan

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Government
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University. – Alan Greenspan

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Business
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. – Alan Greenspan

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finance
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. – John Stuart Mill

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If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration. – Mario Monti

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. – Powell Clayton

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Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. – W.J. Cameron

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. – Oscar Wilde

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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies. – Imre Lakatos

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We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. – Ethel Barrett

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