It Is Easy To Be Conspicuously 'compassionate'

This Process, This Method Necessary To Man's Survival And Prosperity Upon The Earth, Has Often Been Derided As Unduly Or Exclusively "materialistic." But It Should Be Clear That What Has Happened In This Activity Proper To Man's Nature Is A Fusion Of "spirit" And Matter; Man's Mind, Using The Ideas It Has Learned, Directs His Energy In Transforming And Reshaping Matter Into Ways To Sustain And Advance His Wants And His Life. Behind Every "produced" Good, Behind Every Man-made Transformation Of Natural Resources, Is An Idea Directing The Effort, A Manifestation Of Man's Spirit.

I See The Liberty Of The Individual Not Only As A Great Moral Good In Itself (or, With Lord Acton, As The Highest Political Good), But Also As The Necessary Condition For The Flowering Of All The Other Goods That Mankind Cherishes: Moral Virtue, Civilization, The Arts And Sciences, Economic Prosperity.

Governments Have Persistently Tried Their Best To Promote, Encourage, And Expand The Circulation Of Bank And Government Paper, And To Discourage The People's Use Of Gold Itself.

Rule By The Statist Elite Is Not Benign Or Simply A Matter Of Who Happens To Be In Office: It Is Rule By A Growing Army Of Leeches And Parasites Battening Off The Income And Wealth Of Hard-working Americans, Destroying Their Property, Corrupting Their Customs And Institutions, Sneering At Their Religion.

We Libertarians Are Not The Spokesmen For Any Ethnic Or Economic Class; We Are The Spokesmen For All Classes, For All Of The Public; We Strive To See All Of These Groups United, Hand-in-hand, In Opposition To The Plundering And Privileged Minority That Constitutes The Rulers Of The State.