Unlike The Days Of The Gold Standard,

[t]he Crucial Question Is Not, As So Many Believe, Whether Property Rights Should Be Private Or Governmental, But Rather Whether The Necessarily 'private' Owners Are Legitimate Owners Or Criminals. For Ultimately, There Is No Entity Called 'government'; There Are Only People Forming Themselves Into Groups Called 'governments' And Acting In A 'governmental' Manner. All Property Is Therefore Always 'private'; The Only And Critical Question Is Whether It Should Reside In The Hands Of Criminals Or Of The Proper And Legitimate Owners.

Briefly, The State Is That Organization In Society Which Attempts To Maintain A Monopoly Of The Use Of Force And Violence In A Given Territorial Area; In Particular, It Is The Only Organization In Society That Obtains Its Revenue Not By Voluntary Contribution Or Payment For Services Rendered But By Coercion.

Human Life Is Not Some Sort Of Race Or Game In Which Each Person Should Start From An Identical Mark. It Is An Attempt By Each Man To Be As Happy As Possible. And Each Person Could Not Begin From The Same Point, For The World Has Not Just Come Into Being; It Is Diverse And Infinitely Varied In Its Parts. The Mere Fact That One Individual Is Necessarily Born In A Different Place From Someone Else Immediately Insures That His Inherited Opportunity Cannot Be The Same As His Neighbor's.

If We Look At The Black Record Of Mass Murder, Exploitation, And Tyranny Levied On Society By Governments Over The Ages, We Need Not Be Loath To Abandon The Leviathan State And . . . Try Freedom.

The Natural Tendency Of Government, Once In Charge Of Money, Is To Inflate And To Destroy The Value Of The Currency.