Hans Sennholz Quotes

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The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register.

Hans Sennholz

The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

Hans Sennholz

The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency museums.

Hans Sennholz

An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles.

Hans Sennholz

Few policies are more calculated to destroy the existing basis of a free society than the debauching of its currency. And few tasks, if any, are more important to the champion of freedom than creation of a sound monetary system.

Hans Sennholz

To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures, is a giant educational task. The social and economic ideas that gave birth to the transfer system must be discredited and replaced with old values of individual independence and self-reliance. The social philosophy of individual freedom and unhampered private property must again be our guiding light.

Hans Sennholz