And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, October 22, 2022
To understand any fanatic movement, this is a good starting point.
My dad read his "How to Profit From the Coming Dollar Devaluation" and bought 5 bags of silver coins for ~$2,800/ea. Sold at the height of the Hunt Bros fiasco for ~$33,000/ea. Harry Browne was a great guy.
Only problen using precious metals as currency is in a real crisis the government will seize or outlaw use and/or ownership of said precious metals. It's one of the many things FDR did that were patently unconstitutional.
I read a borrowed copy back in 1968 and bought a copy to keep. It gave me a better understanding of what drives this sort of thought; and perhaps kept me from becoming involved.
Bought it in the mid-90s. Another essential is Harry Browne's "How To Be Free In An Unfree World".
ReplyDeleteMy dad read his "How to Profit From the Coming Dollar Devaluation" and bought 5 bags of silver coins for ~$2,800/ea. Sold at the height of the Hunt Bros fiasco for ~$33,000/ea. Harry Browne was a great guy.
DeleteOnly problen using precious metals as currency is in a real crisis the government will seize or outlaw use and/or ownership of said precious metals. It's one of the many things FDR did that were patently unconstitutional.
DeleteIf a person has not read The True Believer, The Art of War, and The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli, their opinion is unworthy of note.
ReplyDeleteI can never think of those names without hearing Paulie Walnuts's line "Sun Tazoo, the Chinese Prince Matchabelli."
DeleteI read Hoffer's stuff as a teenager in the early '60s. Even to somebody uninterested in politics it rang like a bell.
I read a borrowed copy back in 1968 and bought a copy to keep. It gave me a better understanding of what drives this sort of thought; and perhaps kept me from becoming involved.
ReplyDeleteThis was required reading when I took Poli Sci in the early 60's
ReplyDeleteRead what he said, not what other converts in own "ideology".
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