"To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills."
-Alan Greenspan
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"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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"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."
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"Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse."
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"I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well."
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"We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real."
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"I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive."
-Alan Greenspan
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
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"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
-Charles Lindbergh
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